Finished just in time!

I have been working really hard this past week to finish my Retro Modern quilt. I was planning to give this to my niece for her 18th birthday, which is this coming weekend. I had thought that we wouldn't be seeing her until August so I have been doing it just in my monthly class. Over the Jubilee weekend, my sister in law invited us to a birthday lunch this weekend! This has meant that I have been 'extreme sewing' this past week. I have hand quilted a motive in the setting blocks and machine quilted the blocks. I finally finished sewing on the binding this morning. Phew... I have made it. I will make a label for it in class tomorrow. So for the big reveal...

I am really pleased with how it has turned out. The hand quilting could have been done in a thicker thread but I have now run out of time to change it. 

I hope that she will like it and will treasure it. For my 18th birthday my Grandmother gave me a series of paintings, done by herself, depicting nature through the four seasons. This is so precious to me and has moved with me throughout my single life, from nurses' homes and flats, through to my own flat and then to my home when I got married. I would like to think that my niece uses this quilt to make her own student room homely when she leaves home next year. I will let you know her reaction.


Just to keep you up to date with the "Let's get Acquainted" blog hop the blogs to hop to this week are 

June 19

    Jennifer from Sewlandia

    Nicole from Mama Love Quilts
June 21

    Suzanne from SuzClaas

    Mina from Kindaquilty

Di xo