The Quilt from ...

arrrrrghhhhhhhh!

I have never had sooooooooo much trouble with a quilt!!! It made me feel stupid!

My friend J. made the top as a wedding quilt for the son of our friends. It's gorgeous! I love all the black and white prints! And it has a piece of his mother's wedding dress in it! Ahhhhhh...

The problem... first I found out I hate hate hate the batting we used. I had never used it before and I don't want to use it ever again! It feels awful... and you touch it a lot when you quilt.

The quilt is actually black black and bright white... don't know what happened to my pic!

My biggest problem though was the quilting... which I did :( Because of the setting white triangles, I decided to quilt it with white thread. Had to wait a couple weeks for the thread to come in (yes, I had to wait for white thread!!!). Then I had to figure out how to quilt it. Since it's a wedding quilt, I decided flowers, ribbons, vines, and leaves would be okay. I finally got it loaded on the frame and started quilting.

And.... could.... not.... see.... the.... quilting!!!

The fabrics are soooooo busy, I could not see the thread from the quilting. So it became quilt a flower, stop and feel where I'd already quilted, move to the next spot, quilt, stop and feel where I'd already quilted, move to the next spot, quilt, stop and feel where.......

Get the idea? I tried ever combination of lights.... everything I could thing to try. Finally today, bright sunlight, overhead lights, and shut off the machine lights... and I could see! Oh well, it's done! I spent some time de-cat-hairing it. Now it's ready for another friend to bind it!

For several years, I've been collecting the fabrics for a b&w quilt. Makes me think I may be crazy! OR....... maybe I'll just quilt mine in lime green ☺