The Wonky Improv-Curve Quilt is Complete!

As per my normal M.O., I'm posting WAY too many photos.  I got this quilt back from the long-arm quilter in early September, and just had time to admire the lovely quilting before I left town on a baseball tour.

Then when I got back, it was time to pack for a trip to France.   Travel is great, but so is being home.

I hand-stitched the binding on this quilt. Something I rarely do. I'm going to enter this in a quilt show, and I thought hand-stitching was the way to go.

I always add a pop of fabric from the quilt to the binding.  This time, I added two different fabrics, just because I wanted to!

May your bobbins always be full,

The Wonky Improv-Curve Quilt

I took these photos a week ago.  I've been so busy that I forgot to post them.  This is the first quilt I've had custom quilted.  The lovely Georganna Hawley quilted it for me.  She was well recommended and I had a chance to meet her at Quiltcon this year.  We live about 3 hours apart, that's how you measure distance in California, so the quilt traveled via US mail.

I'm in love with the result.  I haven't decided on the binding, yet, so I can't mark this complete!

May your bobbins always be full,

The Wonky Improv-Curve Quilt Top and Back

This is what I came up with for the quilt back.  I kept it random and ended up with two pink rectangles together!  That's how you know it's random!

I've decided to us a Long Arm Quilter that I met a Quiltcon in February because she does custom quilting.  Before I met her, another quilter from the Ventura MQG had highly recommended her.  It's always great to have an independent recommendation.

Since I'm not much of a leave it to chance kind of gal, in spite of the evidence in the quilt back, I came up with a plan for the quilting and I'm going to let the quilter "run with it".  She has a busy schedule, so I won't have it back until August.

May your bobbins always be full,

The Wonky Improv-Curve Quilt Top is finished

Photo overload.  The quilt top was actually finished this morning, which was lucky because it's a stupid hot today.  We topped out at 101 degrees at 11 AM.  I got out to take these photos earlier.  I really love all the movement in this Wonky Improv-Curve Quilt top.

I've been working on the quilt back, so it should be finished by tomorrow.  I'm in a quandary about how to have this quilted.  My LAQ doesn't do custom and I think this deserves some custom work.  I'll need to come up with a plan before I send it off to someone.

May your bobbins always be full,