Always in motion is the future.*

Well, in motion or not, I have finished a quilt in the present.

Here it is before I washed it, in the tiny bit of almost sun we had this afternoon:



And here it is in its post-washing glory, although the sun is gone and we have an arty mood shot:



There are close ups of many of the blocks and more pictures of the whole quilt here.

My process for this quilt, in case you want one too, was to fussy cut the centre blocks at 4" square. I cut selvage to selvage strips of each fabric I had, one each of 1.5", 2" and 2.5" and made log cabin blocks. I assembled them in a random manner with no plan, just went with what felt good. The blocks were 12.5" square before I finished them. I sashed it with Essex Linen cut at 3.5". I used strips of 18" of the solids sewn randomly together to make the binding.

These are my first ever log cabin blocks, and I see many thousands more in my future!

Here is a bit of the back, which is all this lovely yellow print, and the block I will write the name of the quilt and details into before I give it away to my friend who is sitting about recovering from unexpected surgery. I am calling it the Magnolia Quilt.



More quilting to come --- always in motion is the future.

I have linked to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced, the work displayed there is always wonderful.

Best,

Leanne

*It is my dorky quilty friends at the QAL who are to blame...