A Summer Sampler Finish!

Well this one's been a process that's for sure! Begun last spring, it was a block a week for months, a break before the blocks came together into a top, and then several apprehensive weeks before I finally got to the finishing details.

There was a pieced back, which I'll share in a future post, and then the big dilemma of quilting design. At 80" x 92", it was large enough to make me nervous, so I finally settled on a simple freehand curve and then echo-quilted from there at 1" intervals. Using Aurifil 50wt #2600 (light gray) was perfect over all the pieced blocks and provided a pretty subtle contrast on the dark blue. Unfortunately the quilting lines don't show that great in my photos, but the golden curve shown below is a decent approximation of my first pass across the quilt, done freehand with my hera marker prior to quilting. 

To keep it as unnoticeable as possible, I bound the quilt in Kona Storm to match the background and let the circles be the focus.

So I can't tell you how fantastic it feels to have this third long-term project completed! Having finished two others since 2020 began, I'm finally feeling like I'm close to being free to do some random sewing. Yay!