Thread Tales From A Scrappy Quilter

I finished the binding!  Two steps left, I have not made a label and it has not been washed yet.  Other than that, completely finished.   I suppose this is the oldest UFO I have ever completed.  MIL is delighted with the finish - yeah!  Now to work on finding time to complete Quilt #2.                          

I'm so excited, maybe more than my MIL for her almost 50 year UFO to become a finished product.   I finally decided to just quilt it like I would like to quilt it, not like what may have been traditional for 1960....   Can't wait to get started on the binding and get this piece washed and dried to see how it responds.   One down, one more to go and then 8 more blocks for sometime in the future...

Basket quilt is off the frame and binding done.   I decided that I machine pieced this, machine quilted it so why not machine quilt both sides of the binding?  Right or wrong, that's what I did.  Wish I would have thought to put blue thread in the bobbin though LOL!  OH well, this is not destined to be a showpiece.  It was a fun piece to make going back to the exchange with our Quilting Geese back in 2007,set into a quilt top in 2009 and finally it made it to the top of the UFO stack in 2012 to be quilted!  Lots of feathers and maybe not the best design ... but done is good.  Hopefully tomorrow I will get the hand stitching parts done on the sleeve and label and into the wash it goes.  Can't wait to see it all washed and soft!  This one has been a long time in the works. The best compliment?  I showed it to my neighbor that is also a quilter and she thought it was a computer guided pattern!  Aw...