The Tulip Dance is done!

I started this quilt in March 2013 as I wanted something a bit challenging! 

Well I did achieve that!

It all started with this block ...

I thought a few would look nice together

Helen pointed out there was a sort of four pointed star between them so I thought I'd make use of that!

My first thought was this - but didn't like it!

 This seemed better...

I got stuck when I got this far

And then I just pottered on a bit and came to another stop - other things were more pressing...


At my uncle's 90th birthday party in December I learnt that his grand daughter was having a baby in February so I decided to finish it off and gift it to her.

 I started looking at it from here!

I wanted to add this as a border and decided the coloured stars all had to go in the border and so there was a bit of unpicking and restitching required!

It didn't take too long to finish the top now I had decided what to do 

and I had a lovely print by Bari J from Art Gallery Fabrics which seemed to be asking to go on the back..

I was tempted to quilt the background with a stipple or something swirly to help the coloured bits stand out but in the end I just quilted in the ditch or near it (I can't do straight lines) and left it a bit simpler and puffier after all it is a baby quilt!

That done I found a pretty green, grey and turquoise vintage style floral in my stash/scraps - just enough to bind round my quilt!  

I had supervision at this point!

Last night I finished stitching it down....think the glass of wine helped

So this morning I took some pics that don't look too bad even on this gloomy overcast day!

I may not want to part with it but I am looking forward to handing it over!  Best write up the details so I remember how I did it first though ...as I may want to make this pretty one again.

One of my FAL15 quilts which I will be linking up at the end of the quarter.