And the top is finished! It is not quilted yet but I put it on my bed to see how it looks (also to be sure it is big enough). I enlarged Pirouette, from the book A Scrapbook of Quilts, from 16 blocks to 25 blocks so it would fit a queen size bed. And I made the outer border 4" wide to add a bit more. I think it will be about 93" square after quilting.
The color in this close-up photo is closer to "real life" than the photo above. The 30's reproduction prints are bright and cheerful.
I had to buy some fabric for the back as I did not have anything big enough in my stash so I went for a wideback fabric (108 inches wide) because my least favorite part of quilt making is piecing the back. I am going to take this to a longarmer to quilt and am contemplating designs while I wait for the back to arrive. I want a design that will make the seams in the white areas less apparent. I do have some fabric for the binding. It is a blue print, the same blue as the solid I used for the tiny cornerstones in the center of each block.
This quilt was a good stash buster though I still have enough 30's reproduction prints to make another quilt. I'm thinking maybe a log cabin. But that won't be my next project as I have a few things in the pipeline to get to first.
