Drumroll please....ta-da! I finally finished this baby quilt using my great-grandma's quilt blocks! It may have taken me months and months to get started , and I had to let go of my perfectionism, and I had to teach myself how to hand-quilt, but it's finally finished!
I love, love, love this quilt. I love the fabrics and the fabric choices Great-grandma made, and how different they are from ones I would normally choose. It's not a matchy-matchy quilt. I was even able to find a large piece of fabric in her stash, which I used for the backing and binding.
I love how the hand-quilting looks great with these blocks, it really makes this quilt and helps create a vintage scrap-quilt look. I decided that this quilt was already busy enough without complicated quilting (and, I admit, this was only my second quilt doing hand-quilting, so I didn't want to try anything too ambitious). I just did simple outline stitching about 1/4" from all the seams.
So far, BT loves it, too ;)
-Lily
