Dresden quilt FINISHED!!

Hi Everybody,

I'm glad You're here! I'm sooooo excited to share some pictures about the quilt I finally finished :)) I still have to wash it so stay tuned because  more pictures are coming up in a future post, but I'm just too excited not to share these. I've been wanting to take pictures for 2 days, but it was dark when I finally put the last stitches in, and yesterday I just wasn't home during the day.

The quilting process was kind of slow, it took me 2 days to finish because we needed to run errands in the meantime. I was really happy I have a seam ripper again since it involved a lot of un-stitching. I was using Sulky rayon 40wt variegated thread on the top and solid pink on the bottom, same kind. Somehow when I went over a lot of seams in a short period of time, the thread shredded and I had to re-start again. That involved a lot of starts and stops. I tried to make a flower out of the 3-D pinwheels in the corners, but ended up picking out the stitches because of too many layers, and also the floppy pinwheel blades kept getting caught in the free motion foot. Other than those troubles the quilting went smooth. I expected to finish it a lot faster, but it's all right, I'm done! And that's what counts! I ended up binding it by hand because I just didn't feel like playing with my  machine about picking out what kind of decorative stitch to use to secure the binding.

First, here's the back (which in REAL life looks like it's trapunto). I pieced the leftover "blades" and the test 3D pinwheel block. For the record, the top and bottom fabric are the same. Also the quilt looks kind of wobbly since 2 hangers weren't enough, but 3 were one too many :)

Here are some close-ups of the quilting of the block itself and the border.

The front:

Close-up:

Close-up of the borders:

Close-up of the blocks:

And the 4 corners with the 3-D pinwheels:

Hope you enjoyed the show and I'll be back hopefully tomorrow night with more pictures of the washed quilt. I'm also planning to give it to the Birthday Girl and hope to snap a picture of her too!
UPDATE: You can see  the after-the-wash pictures by clicking here.
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Thanks so much for visiting and come again soon! :)

'Til we blog again! :)