Thursday, March 1, 2012

Ready for binding

This quilt was a collaborative effort of my teacher friends (3 + me) for our beloved secretary, Betty, retiring this year.

We went into our stashes and put together this design in Betty's favorite colors. We strip pieced squares tying in the "white on white" background.


The appliqué, suggested by the pattern, was turned with fusable interfacing.

I did a combination of machine quilting, in the ditch and free motion, on the colored parts with hand quilting in the white background.

Now its Debbie's turn to put on the binding.

2 comments:

Janet said...

It's a wonderful gift Janet, she will love it. The quilting looks great too.

Pokey said...

It is beautiful, and will be loved! Happy retirement to Betty ~
:-}pokey