Becky's quilt

Before I show you Becky's beautiful quilt I want to thank you for all of the kind comments about my shop retirement news. The comments, orders and orders with comments have been wonderful and I really appreciate them! I'm working to get all of the orders process by tomorrow but if there are fabrics you have wanted for your stash, there's a lot still available.

This is Becky's awesome quilt that I quilted last week. This is going to be donated to the Montpelier Center For The Arts to be used as a raffle quilt. As part of our "rent" for our meetings there, we will provide them with one quilt each year that they will raffle for a Christmas fundraiser. This will be the quilt for 2024. My farm quilt will be the quilt for 2025. 

Becky mostly hand quilts her quilts but we agreed that quilting would not show on this particular quilt. The blocks are the focus of this quilt and a pantograph was the perfect quilting treatment.

I love quilting her quilts because they are always flat and square. But she also does a lot of fussy cutting so it's fun to find the little treasures throughout the quilt.
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I quilted it in gold thread using this feathered curls pantograph. It's one of my favorite pantographs but I don't use it often. I feel it's too feminine for the veterans quilts. I was glad to be able to use it on this quilt.
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My camera refused to photograph the backing correctly. Imagine this is a pretty forest green done in a gradient with light in the middle and dark at two edges. It looks a lot prettier than this photo in real life.
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I returned it to Becky and she had it bound in a day! Now I just have to make a label this weekend and it will be ready to donate. I think this quilt will generate a lot of ticket sales!
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