A Finish

I think this is the first thing I have finished all year, which is quite shocking, but then it hasn't been a great year so far.

Broken Herringbone quilt, made as a donation for the guild's "Quilts of Love" program. It was assembled in April, basted in June, and then sat around in my sewing room. A couple of weeks ago I gave myself a kick up the backside and sat down to quilt it. I finished the binding last night.

In bright sunshine above, which washed out the colours to some extent, and in too-dark shade below.

Back view:

I used some fabrics for the back that I didn't think I was likely to use on the front of a quilt any time soon.

The quilting isn't very clear in any of these photos. I wasn't feeling very inspired, but I needed to do something, so I went for overall large stippling, and a chain of leaves in the border:

I used up one of the few plasticy labels that were left, remembering to zig-zag it to the backing before basting the quilt. Now it is attached firmly with no hand-sewing required.

It feels good to have actually finished something!