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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Vintage Holiday QAL Week 10: Binding


First, I want to thank you all for your sweet words about yesterday's post. You have given me so much encouragement, and I'm so grateful. Thank you, my friends.


Next I want to say -- hallelujah, it's done!! I have never taken so long to finish a quilt before, and seeing this one complete gave me such a thrill.


I bound it in a red print which adds a nice little burst of color all the way around the quilt and matches perfectly with the red flowers in the blue print I used for the border on the front.


Since my little Bear has been needing a new quilt for her larger bed, I decided to offer this one to her if she was interested. She was absolutely overjoyed. In fact, I could hardly carry the quilt to her bed this evening because she was walking along next to me trying to gather it in her arms and give it kisses. I honestly don't know if anyone loves my quilts more than my daughters do.

So here we are at the final week! Wrap up those quilts and get ready to link up your big finish some time between next Monday and Friday. The wonderful people at Fat Quarter Shop have given me two beautiful fat quarter bundles of Vintage Modern to give away to two of you who link up. You won't want to miss out!

Linking up to Sew Modern Monday and the Let's Get Acquainted Monday Link-up.

19 comments:

  1. GORGEOUS!!!! And done!! Yikes I have A LOT of catching up to do! I still need to buy my border fabric... Looks fab, love the bauble on the back too :)

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  2. That looks great!! Can we link up through Flickr or something instead of a blog? I have my backing, batting, and finished quilt top...now I just need to put it all together...which means I have to vacuum the floor first so I can lay it out...which means it can wait a day or two :)

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  3. Very cute. I just love how it turned out. Thanks for hosting such a fun quilt a long even though I didn't get it finished! I hope to finish it at some point, but it was definitely fun to try something new which I did do. Thanks again.

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  4. Oh wow... so beautiful! The colors couldn't be lovelier, and the wavy quilting is perfect. Lucky little girl. :)

    PS: Next week?? Yikes! Time to get cracking on those borders!

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  5. Congrats on your lovely finish! Love that your girlies love your quilts!

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  6. Your quilt turned out sooo amazing! I love your choice in fabrics. Can't wait for the link up party, all I have left is the binding!

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  7. Yay, it's done! Looks great! Your daughter is so cute. :)

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  8. Looks great! And even better that your daughter loves it so much!

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  9. The red binding really pulls the colors together greatly! Now I need to overcome my basting/quilting fear and get mine done...

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  10. adorable quilt, Heidi! I love the pattern you used!

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  11. Beautiful quilt. And I love you sweet daughters reaction to it! What more could you ask for!

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  12. I just love that you are sharing your skill and love-of-fabric with your wonderful daughters. Who wouldn't love this quilt? Your little one obviously has her mother's good taste.

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  13. I love how your quilt turned out! I'm hoping to have mine done in time, all my children are flying in to visit this weekend!
    Take care of yourself and don't worry about taking awhile to make a quilt, its a no stress QAL you said :-)!

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  14. Wow - it looks fantastic! I love all the fabrics choices you made with it and I'm not one bit surprised at your daughter's reaction!

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  15. "I could hardly carry the quilt to her bed this evening because she was walking along next to me trying to gather it in her arms and give it kisses. I honestly don't know if anyone loves my quilts more than my daughters do."

    Could that be cuter? No. No it could not.

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  16. Thanks for the motivation....I'm up to block #6! Maybe I'll catch up in time:-)

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  17. awww, this is wonderful. i still need to finish mine up!

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  18. beautiful top! i love this quilts colors

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