Oh my!! I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted! Well, here is the final quilt that I made for the year. Not the final quilt that I was planning, but the final one I got done. Still have two more to finish for my birthday quilts project, but hey, I accomplished a lot this year and I would have gotten them done if I hadn't taken that class in the fall which took loads and loads of time - you can teach an old dog a new trick, but it takes quadruple the time and effort!!

Anyway - here it is!

This is William's birthday quilt, the one I promised to show you long ago. I did get it done for his birthday and it turned out beautiful. I planned to make it square - 11 blocks long and 11 blocks wide, but when I got to that point and thought I was done, I didn't like the way it looked, so back to the drawing board I went. I added a row of light blocks on the top and bottom, then discovered that I had just enough blocks (and just the right ones - thank you, LORD! :) to add another row to the top and bottom. I used every single piece of fabric that I had for this quilt - no blocks left over, not enough fabric to cut another single block - amazing and it turned out to be the perfect size for his twin bed!!

This is a rag style quilt - I do love to make them, but the ragging process takes about 4 hours to clip all the seams - wow!! For this rag quilt, I cut 7" blocks of the fabric and 5" blocks of "Warm and Natural" batting, stitched the usual X in the center of all the blocks that didn't have embroidery on them. I didn't want the embroidery to show on the back, so just embroidered on the top block, then sandwiched them together with batting and back block and quilted just a bit in from each corner to hold them together.

The center black diagonal blocks spell out his name, the other black blocks have words describing who William is. The last picture is the back of the quilt.

William loves it :)

What do you think???