SAHRR Finish: You're Golden

Because I'm planning on donating this, and hopefully as a comfort quilt to someone in need, I wanted a sunshine-y, upbeat, pretty flowers type of name and after pondering for a bit on the yellow that shines all the way through the quilt, 'golden' came to me, and then the expression, "You're golden," meaning you're good, you're not at all wrong, you're fine.

It was extremely windy today, and incredibly foggy all morning. I feel at times as if I live by the sea when the fog comes rolling up the street and over and around the trees and houses. I guess a Great Lake is an inland sea, and it does create its own weather. The sun came out in the afternoon, so I was able to get some good outdoor shots.

Here is the back. I built it from yardage (the mauve) and leftovers (the rest).

The mauve is a cool print I picked up on that oft-mentioned fabric therapy trip Dayna took me on to Fabricland in Sherwood Park after my mum had died. They had quite a lot of bolts of Henry Glass fabric marked down to $6/metre. This metre came home because it was interesting and a pretty colour, though it has no fabric details on either selvage. However, 'interesting' has meant it hasn't gotten used in the nearly eight years (how can that be) since, so it went well with the front of the quilt and the strip of yellow trellis fabric I intended to use as well. I thought it a whimsical addition to use the frogs fabric (an oldie S.S.I. one) 'Prince Charming?' it says on his lily pad, and frogs with purple crowns. I felt the person will smile when they see that! A dusky mauve scrap filled in the lower corner.

The binding is scrappy, using several leftovers in my binding bag, (even a piece from my last PQ project--can you spot it?) and a few added in strips from my scraps, one of which is also in the quilt front. They're all blues and purples.

My initials, as always, are quilted in the lower corner. (top layer in this photo)

I did a fat all-over meander across the entire top,

stitching in the ditch between the purple 'sparkles' skinny border and the yellow, as well as in the yellow centre border that tied the original four blocks together.

The two big butterflies got a little custom quilting:

This shot shows the purple binding that is used to frame the small butterflies as well as around the light blue squares on point just peeking in at the bottom.

Rufus had to be in one outdoor shot. What a spectacular few days we've had! I've eaten lunch outside as well as had my tea outside in the warm sunshine. Ahhh.

My quilt with moi, its maker. I'd hoped my husband would catch the snowdrops in our garden on my left, but the quilt is hiding them. If you zoom in you can spy lots of daffodils here and there, poking their beautiful green shoots up through the soil. I love spring. Fills one with hope. Even if its just within one's own backyard.

Here is a link to the final round and quilt top where you can see how the quilt evolved.

Quilt Stats:

Size: 50.5" square

Pattern: my own design following prompts each week

Fabric: various scraps and stash

Batting:  Soft Loft 100% polyester (it's Canadian! Check it out at Fabricland)

Backing: unknown (maybe Henry Glass), Vintage Collectibles by R.E.D.Original Designs, k.p. kids & co. by kari pearson for S.S.I. 

Quilted: on Avril, 37 802 stitches

Threads: pieced on both my Bernina and Featherweight with Essential 100% cotton; quilted with Exquisite 100% polyester; rayon by Floriani in the bobbin.

Linking up with the final parade of quilts at the end of this month!