Evergreen - Truly Finished At Last!

Finally, a finish!  I pieced this quilt at the end of last year and got it back from my quilter in April then finally finished binding it this weekend.  While I am calling my quilt Evergreen (the backing fabric is a wintery evergreen bough print), the original design by Kim Diehl is called Twilight Hopscotch and is in her book called Simple Comforts.

 

It is 62 inches square, a nice throw size.  I think I will be using it mainly at Christmas time, though the two green prints I used don't shout Christmas so it could be used year 'round.  I used a batik for the stars and a green with gold metallic dots for the chain blocks.  I bound the quilt with the leftover batik fabric.  The white solid is Kona white.

 

Karen Thompson did the longarm quilting using an open feathery sort of paisley all-over design.  I like this design a lot. 

 

This quilt was a change for me.  When I began quilting, I made quilts that had just three or four different fabrics in them but for the past few years, I've been immersed in a more scrappy style. This design uses just three fabrics (and could be done with two).  It will be a calming influence when I put it out with my more wild and scrappy Christmas quilts.