Originally Posted by QuiltingNinaSue

I am back in the saddle again, with the optic nerve decreasing in its swollen state, and hoping that action continues...at least I am not blind...yet.

I did take the Quilt Bus Tour and seen Quilting on the Square Quilt Shop. Mary, the one who designed the SYEs, said it would be retired from their site in Mid May...so if you lack any of the patterns, please download and save for when you might what to finish. And sign up for their newsletter which is starting the beginning of paper piecing pieces then. Mary was 'twisting' best friend's arm to start the simple pp with them then...and showing her their blocks and patterns that they would use. "But," said my bf, "that's pp!", "yes," said Mary, "that's what we do here!" Bf is a hand quilter and her expression was priceless. LOL. The trip was two days, four states, and wonderful FART with lots of laughter.

Originally Posted by mirabelle

It's finished.

I SID every seam within the block, and as I didn't want a lot of starts and finishes and didn't want to turn the quilt, I free motioned the SID, a few wiggly lines but it went a lot faster. I started quilting the background of the blocks but didn't like it so reverse sewed and left the background blank. I think it works as the block stand out which it what I wanted. I then quilted a simple feather in the setting triangles and a cross hatch in the sashing, again I did the cross hatch free motion. Piano keys in the final 2 borders just framed the whole quilt.

I am definitely keeping this one.