Finished!

I do wish I could post more often, but getting photos to my blog is now an insanely byzantine process.  I'll bet if I wanted to spend 4 hours learning some new process I could do it pretty quickly, though I'm certain it would involve getting a new, expensive phone as well.  So I stick with this silly backwards maze of hacks and workarounds and only post once every six months and miss half the pictures I took and want to talk about and probably forget at least one project.  But at least that leaves me more time to actually make stuff.  Anyway!  

Here is a finished baby quilt.  (I still am not sure how to get Blogger to move my pictures around easily, so I'll get it into some semblance of coherence, if not order). 

 

It is for a boy who is due in March.  It has delightful whales/orcas/narwhals in the border and seashells and seals and stars.  I thought the light was ideal for photos today, but no - this winter has really brought it starting in November.  The sun has been out for about a total of 1.5 days out of the last 40.  We haven't been above freezing in weeks.  It's rather lovely that way and really makes you appreciate summer.  

 

Here's the back!  It's blue dots that I bought for something else.  I went on a pretty crazy tear after Christmas - got TWO gift certificates and left the kids at home and got lost in a time warp at the fabric store.  Got the nice border fabric but neglected to get a back to go with it, so I used this, which was meant to go with the jacks-looking blue fabric that I have more borders of.  It worked well here, though, and I will just plan to get stuck in the same way I always do when it's time to back a quilt.  

A closeup!  Still very dark.   

 

And here is another finish, a big one, though you can't really tell from the documentation.  All the pictures of in-progress are on my phone, which might as well be the outer reaches of the solar system given that I can't text to e-mail anymore.  But please be very impressed - this quilt is a Norm & Nanette with vintage fabrics - knits, corduroys, overalls.   

The quilting was a wild success, meeting my only goal of "oh god please don't ruin it."  The hooks, not pictured here, are the fasteners from overalls.  Cute!  Economical!  Invisible!  

Instead of dragging more photos around, I'll just make more posts.  Here they come!