Swoon in flight!

Here it is!  This is now a finished quilt!  If anyone ever asks how long it takes to hand sew a binding on a Swoon quilt, it takes the length of the Oscars. Of course, I did look up from time to time to see Cirque du Soliel and the strange Angelina Jolie leg pose, but other than that, I hand sewed the binding.  Then after work and before a dinner meeting, I pinned it up on the clothesline for a photo op.  Husband was helping.  Actually he spent a lot of time pinning clothespins to my pant legs and stuff but at least he was there to cheer me on.  Swoon took a flight though when the pins gave way and the quilt fell to the ground.  I had to super pin it.  This is one really big quilt!

I love it!  I used an assortment of stash fabrics, Martha Negley, Amy Butler and Kaffe Fasset florals that I picked up last summer at my fabulous local quilt shop's "by the pound" sample sale.  The Swoon pattern by Camillie Roskelley calls for 18 fat quarters.  Because I used samples that were all less that fat quarter size, I needed to figure out how to make the best use of the multiple bits of fabric.  I used fussy cut florals for the centres of each Swoon block and coordinating florals in each of the Swoon "corners."  Each Swoon block then, had four different prints.   It works!  I borrowed the cornerstone idea from Katy of I'm a Ginger Monkey and venerable leader of the Swoon-Along.

After sandwiching, I let Swoon sit and rest until I decided how to quilt it.  After lurking around the internet, checking out different forms of Swoon quilting, I went for simple but fairly dense straight line quilting. I quilted it in a marathon on a Sunday with wonderful Aurifil, 50 wt in white.  Bound in a purple print.  Done like dinner!

Linking up with Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story, Made by Me and Sew Modern Monday!

Quilting Swoon... so many dilemmas!

 Swoon sat and rested for a few weeks while I debated how to quilt it.  I snooped in blog land to see what other people were doing and finally I decided to do straight line, walking foot on either side of each seam.  Husband thought it would compliment the geometric nature of the swoon.  He is becoming quite the quilt consultant!  It took me most of the day to quilt the beast that is Swoon.  You can see the backing in this shot. A vintage sheet in white on blue floral.  It has a modern vibe.

 The next design challenge was what to do about the binding.  I auditioned several fabrics until I got down to the two finalists.

And the winner is... I picked the purple. Tonight I will hand sew the binding while I watch the Oscars.  So much fun!

Have a super lovely evening and tomorrow morning, I will link up with Judy's Design Wall Monday!  Not officially on the design wall but just as many design questions with quilting and binding!

Design Wall Monday on the barn

Swoon top on the barn

It was such a beautiful day yesterday that I popped my swoon top on the barn wall for a photo op.  Tee hee hee!   I am getting there!  I borrowed Katy's idea of using cornerstones along with the sashing.  I just used random scraps from the quilt squares.  Now I have to think about the back and the big question of how to quilt it!  This is a really big quilt.  It is even dragging on the ground a bit in this photo.

I was tickled to see that Katy included my swoon blocks on the floor from last week in her little swoon mosaic.  More tee hee hee!

So there you have it.  I have been working on a few other things but more on that later!  Design wall on the barn.

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I will link up with Judy's design wall Monday too!  Now I have to add my latest swoon pictures to Flickr!  Have a lovely day!