Paintbox - quilted and bound

Paintbox has been waiting patiently to have the hand quilting completed
since - believe it or not - 2015!!!
I quilted up the last block four days ago and had the binding on
two days ago.

I should have quilted in the wider border and only really noticed
the wrinkles when this photo was taken - I think I can very carefully
hand quilt following the straight line design of the machine quilting.
Hopefully it will work because I'm not taking off the binding.

The hand quilting is minimal, the centre 'petal' in each  small square
is quilted in the ditch, difficult to see, and machine quilted good old
straight lines in the sashing.
The block design is Windmills from the beautiful
book
Cultural Fusion Quilts
by
Sujata Shah
click on the link above to see more quilts.

Two more photos

You can see I still need to work out how to have standardized  
lettering on all my photos!

I used this colourful butterfly fabric for backing.

Paint Box measures 40" square

with

Cotton/bamboo batting 50/50

We're well into the colder, wet weather here now, our Japanese Maple
is dropping leaves like crazy

and the large oak next door is bare, I now have a reasonable
view of the sunset.

"When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing
and watch it"

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Enjoy the week

Maureen

Ups and downs

It's been a week lacking in motivation! 

I've been fiddling around and not achieving much at all really,

a little quilting on Paintbox

using grey thread one quarter inch around the blocks, intending

to quilt two rows then deal with the border and the blocks

will be hand quilted using the multi thread.

All very simple I know, but that's how I like this one.

Our two youngest grandsons - 4 and 6 yrs and brothers - love The Minions so

after spotting Minion fabric online I had to buy some and

made the simplest cushions for each of them to cuddle up with

when watching their heroes on TV,

we took them around to their place today and they went crazy!!

Small package arrived in the mail, all batiks

and enjoyed looking at my hydrangeas, I love this one

below with the limey green which gradually changes to the pink as

it matures.

I've also been giving a lot of thought to what I would like to

achieve next year with my quilting - far too much is the answer - so 

more serious thinking this week and a long "want to do" list!

Have a happy week

Maureen