Scrappy Trip Along!

I finished this quilt at the end of January, but I'm just now getting around to taking proper pictures of it and blogging about it.  So here it is!

I used a dottie backing fabric from Michael Miller that I found at my local quilt shop.  I bought almost enough to cover the whole back, but I was short just a bit.  So I added in a little section made out of scraps from the front.

I love how the quilting looks on the back.  In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to be using my friend's long arm, and that's exactly what I did!  Up until right before I started quilting it, I really couldn't figure out what design to use.  I had settled on using a pantograph that Marcy had, even though I wasn't totally feeling it.  Then, right before I started, she showed me the quilting she did on the ECMQG's QuiltCon Charity Quilt, and pointed out a little section of clamshells.  She suggested that as my quilting design, and - Ding! Ding! Ding!  That was it!  And it was easy to do, because I made each little curve fit into a square, so I really didn't have to put much thought into it.  I had so much fun quilting this and it went by so fast!  Here's a little more of a close up on the front.

As far as the binding goes, I was a little worried with what to choose.  There's so much going on in the front, that it would be easy to get a binding that clashes.  So I picked a print that I had used in some of the squares on the front, but in a color I hadn't used, and I couldn't be happier with it!  It's "On a String" in lime by Valentina Ramos for Robert Kaufman.  I also put a little patch of Michael Miller's Painter's Canvas in orange to mix it up a bit.

 

Here's a beauty shot of it.

All in all, this is probably my most favorite quilt that I've made, and I'm so happy that I get to keep it!  I snuggle under it every night while I'm watching TV.

It makes me happy.