Quilt Top Finished!

When you last tuned in, this was the last picture you saw, and I had just laid out the white fabric to see what it would look like, and also just laid down the strips I had left over from the strip sets. I had cut each strip set into 5” pieces, and I had enough to cut a 3 1/2” piece at each end. That is what I used for the outer piano key border.                                        Have you ever done something the same way, like FOREVER, and then one day, just like someone hits you on the head, you realize, ‘Oh, hey! Why didn’t I think of this before?’ As I was ironing each border I added, and I kept sliding the top down the ironing board, and folding over what I had just ironed, I thought, ‘Oh, hey! Why don’t I just put both of my ironing boards end to end and make a longer ironing surface?’ Can you say, ‘Oh DUH, Michelle! Take you long enough to think of that?!!!’ So put them end to end, I did! Wow, that REALLY helped! It also helped me measure the sides so I knew how long to cut the borders, without laying it on the floor, and it gave me a nice place to pin the borders on! (I know, I know….I get so excited about the simplest things!)                                          Here is the quilt top with all the white/black borders sewn on….                                        ….and here it is with the first piano key border sewn on.                                                   Ta da!!! My sweetie’s new quilt top is finished!!!! It measures 64” x 81”.                                                      Tune in tomorrow, when I’ll be loading it on the quilter and quilting it! 

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, didn’t eat too much (I did!), and enjoyed time with friends and family.

Be blessed,                                       Michelle