I finished Summer Quilt yesterday! Tomorrow is the start of school, so I made it by ONE DAY, even if I had to fish it out of the dryer and put it on the kid while kid was already sleeping. Still made it!
It's one of my weirder ones, but I really like it. I quilted simple horizontal lines across in white, pretty far apart - 4-8", usually, because the seersucker in place of the batting isn't likely to shift around much. Oh, and I threw in a couple lines of dark purple embroidery thread quilting just for the fun of it. I considered doing a lot more, but my aim was for a light quilt and everything I thought about doing would just have added weight.
I lost some white on the bottom left because I didn't estimate the width well. That was a bummer, but if I'd slowed down to add some more in, I would've lost some big opportunities for time and space to work on this - done is better than perfect, right?
The binding was mostly oranges and pinks from the jelly roll.
Kiddo picked out the backing fabric. Not what I would have chosen in a million years, but it kind of matches and kiddo is very happy with it, so that's a win.
An enormous wave of activities and busy-ness is about to crest over us, but there will be another baby in February, so I started another Koala baby quilt today. And measured carefully and calculated that I have just enough fabric for two more koala quilts. Five total seems like enough, but it's also just such a great gender-neutral fabric and the scale is so nice, and it's my favorite colors. But there will always be other fabric, I know, I know.
I also don't have a plan for backing fabric, but something will turn up! Haha.
Happy crafting!
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