2011-2012 Block of the Month Quilt

Finally, three months later than I'd hoped to have it finished, here it is. My block of the month quilt from Quilts, Etc., our local quilt shop. If you have your top pieced by the first class of the next year (last September) they let you take the next year for free. I had the top pieced, barely. But quilting opportunities have been few and far between. In addition, I decided to practice more of my free-motion straight line quilting and stitching in the ditch. Or somewhere around the ditch. Or, as Nicole at Sister's Choice Quilts says, "quilting in the vicinity of the ditch." So the quilting was slow, to say the least.

I was afraid by the end I would hate the quilt. But I washed and dried it, and it got all nice and puckery and hides most of my strange stitching meanderings away from the ditch. Now that I don't have my face 12 inches away from it constantly I like it again. 

A few of my sashings, ready to be trimmed. Doing the math for those was not much fun!

Size: 54 inches by 78 inches