My done and dusted moment

And here is the finished quilt that has been the subject of this week's posts (here and here).

Athough at the beginning of the process the fact that I was making this for other people (as opposed to making it and then gifting it) freaked me out a bit - a state of mind I revisited occasionally as I went along - I also learned a lot from this quilt.  The colour choices, the design, even the spiral quilting all came directly from my sense of what my friends would like; so I tried new stuff instead of just what I already like.  I still had 'what if they don't like it' moments of anxiety along the way, but kept faith in my instincts over this and, happily, they were not disappointed.  (That's a kind of English understated way of saying they loved it!)

The finished quilt is 65.5" by 87".  I used loads of different fabrics, including the red/purple ones from an Oakshott Ruby Reds bundle, some Carrie Bloomston collage (one plain, one newsprint strips and a bit of bird border), some Kaffe Fassett fat quarters, Kate Spain's Daydream (for the moon). There's even a couple of batik fabrics in there - the very dark purple with the tiny squares in the picture below and the long strips with the curvy pattern.

I used Hobbs Tuscany Wool Wadding and quilted using a Valdani variegated perle thread.

Linking up with Off the Wall Friday, TGIFF, Fabric Frenzy Friday, Slow Sunday Stitching, Anything Goes Monday and, in for a penny, in for a pound,  Sew Cute Tuesday