Garden Party Quilt

Woohoo!  I finished this quilt!  It’s a bit of a story – I bought the fabric in June 2010 at the Sandown Quilt show.  I fancied sewing something pretty so purchased these fat quarters:

And then at the sewing class I used to go to, they ran a class based on this quilt using the gorgeous garden party by Moda

http://fatquartershop.blogspot.com/2010/02/garden-party-moda-quilt-kit-flower.html

Here’s a picture of the original:

 

My background is a little cream pattern on cream, and I have used 3 different patterns.

The buds of the flowers are a clever little foldy thing:

I decided to use green for my sashing, here it is without the final cream border:

I rather like the green sashing, makes it look like trellis don’t you think?

I am a hand quilter not a machine quilter (though it’s on my list of things to learn to do in 2012!), so I decided to quilt flowers around the edge, and then more in the final border.  I did machine quilt ‘in the ditch’ around the sashing.  It looks fabulous on the back!

Some green binding and I’ve called it done!

Here’s the final quilt:

I’m giving it to my Mum for Christmas, shhh don’t tell her!