Gwen's favorite color quilt

I finished Gwen's quilt the other day. I pieced the back, basted, quilted, made binding, and then finally bound it and washed it all in one day. I am sharing with you the progress of this quilt since I think it is fun sometimes to see a quilt from start to finish.

First I started with a bunch of blue prints that Gweniveve picked out along with Kona in white and peacock. I did half blocks with the print on the outside and the Kona peacock in the middle then the print in the middle and the Kona white on the outside.




Then I laid them out alternating the blocks then sewed them together in rows until the top was done.




Then I pieced the back which I did not take a picture of. Once that was done I basted the quilt on the floor to get it ready to pin.




Then I started pinning all 3 layers together.




Then I quilted it. I did straight line quilting, 2 straight lines on each side of the seams.




Then I pulled out a couple of fabrics and laid them next to the quilt to figure out what binding I wanted and I could not decide so I just asked Gweniveve and she choose the green Metro Living circles.




Then I made my binding. I always cut my binding at 3" because I like having plently of room with my binding. I bound the quilt and it was all done. Gweniveve loved it!




The I put it in the wash to get all nice and clean and the next morning I hung it on my front door to get pictures of it. The quilt is 56" x 80".




Here is the back with Gweniveve's favorite print from Park Slope by Erin McMorris. This girl just loves blue.




All folded.




We all laid under the quilt that night and watched Pawn Stars one of my favorite shows! So now I only have one other WIP from last year to finish which feels amazing.  I only have 1 WIP left on my shelf. Whoo Hoo.  I usually don't have many WIP's as I like to start and finish something before I start a new one but sometimes that doesn't work out.