The FO of the hour is the crib / lap quilt from my Summer 2011 - UFO group on Ravelry. It's the 10th quilt down. I'm not entirely sure when or where the fabric came from or how it even came to be a UFO. But as it turns out it only needed a bit more more to call it an FO. I went for the birthing / pillowcase method rather than binding it. It's a pretty low quality fabric all in all & the batting appears to be an old crib size mattress cover. So I didn't want to add any nice quilting cottons onto it for that reason alone. I do quite like one of the fabrics though & maybe in another time would have tried to pull some of it off of the top and replace it with something else, but I didn't. It's real cute, it has wee people on it, they spear to be walking & the smaller ones appear to be ready to throw either a ball or a snow ball! Very cute. Also at first glance I thought that the man in the blue coat was a policeman, but upon further inspection he appears to be a businessman. I figured this would be a good quilt to try out free motion quilting, so I did a smaller stipple along both of the long sides, I like way that it looks too so that's s bonus! For the body of the quilt I did a very wavy line back and forth, also using the free motion style.
All in all I'm satisfied with the quilt..... It certainly could have been better, but what is one to do when you pull it out of a bin and it's all sandwiched together and ready to go?! I'm not sure what will come if this wee vintage fabric quilt, but I'm sure someone will enjoy it. :)
Ta ta for now!
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