Teal Vomit ~A Finished Quilt~

Finally a finished quilt in 2014!  Only took me 10 months (I actually finished it in October.  That counts!).  

This was pre-wash, so you can still see some of the pencil marks :)

Here is the picture that inspired the name... I basically went through my stash and pulled out anything that resembled "teal" (you can see the story here: http://hipsterquilter.blogspot.com/2014/09/teal-vomit-quilt.html).  And this isn't even a fraction of what I used.  Would't you know, I have a LOT of teal!!

  

By the time I started to arrange the blocks, I was SO sick of teal. The binding is really the coup de grace, since I thought for a few minutes and quickly decided that there was no other option than a beautiful Alison Glass teal; in other words I really just gave in to the inevitable.  I did go easy on the backing, which is an adorable print called "Suzy's Dollhouse" from Robert Kaufman.  As always, now that it's done, I love it, but I'm not sure there's another monochromatic quilt in my NEAR future.

Here is me arranging the blocks with other 12" ones I had on hand, so I could visualize how it was coming together:

My friend gets it next week at her wedding shower, and I can't wait to see the look on her face... I will know in a second how much she really loves teal! :)

More snowy maples

More snowy maples, from my hipsterquilter account on Flickr.

Here is another picture of my modern maples quilt, or more appropriately, Snowy Maples. You can't have too many pictures in such a beautiful setting!

Snowy Maples

Finally a finished quilt to show off!  It's my Christmas present to myself.  This is the first quilt I've ever made just for me and while I loved making things for other people it was SO nice to not to have a deadline this time around.  I did, however, want to finish this while I was in Vermont over the holidays so I could show it off in a very mapley quilty setting.  I brought it up to finish the hand binding, and after several days of good food and wine, countless Hallmark movies, half of The Big Lebowski, and a couple of dogs who couldn't stop trying to lick it- tada!!!  Merry Christmas to me!

My Dad was a trooper and helped schlep it outside through the crusty icy snow and held it up for me to photograph in the sun.  It's certainly been a white Christmas up here.

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas day today!