Little Blue Folly Finished

Edited to add the photo directly below of the quilt after washing and drying.  It now measures 13 1/4" x 16 3/4".   It's far out of kilter and has bowed sides.

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I can hardly believe tomorrow is the first day of June!  Wasn't it January just a few weeks ago?

This is Little Blue Folly, my One Monthly Goal for May.  Specifically, the goal was to finish the top, which I did on the 24th but I forgot to take photos then.  I kept going and layered, basted, and began quilting it.  Below is a photo of it with the quilting finished.  More than half the border is stitched down on the back.  I expect to finish it tonight.

It is a different quilt than I thought it would be when I started.  After playing around with sashing of different sizes, and then circles of different sizes, I finally decided that the red triangles were the best choice.  They are small and subtle but I "enhanced" them by quilting around them with red thread.  Really very subtle. 

I used two strands of embroidery floss to quilt lines, mostly vertically but sometimes on the horizontal.

The quilt measures 14 1/8" x 17 1/4".  The batting is one layer of flannel for batting and I'm sure it will shrink after it's washed and dried.  I cut the single-fold binding at 1".  For this particular quilt I think a 1 1/4" strip would have been better, simply because there are a lot of seams on the edges.  That 1" strip was a tight fit.

This is not a quilt I love.  I like it and I enjoyed making it but I probably won't make another like it.

As I was playing with options I realized many ideas would have worked, maybe even better, and that if I wanted to try out the other options I could always make more blocks and play again.  Sometimes I have the mindset that there's only one best way for a particular quilt to be made and that I must find it.  Definitely not so!

After this is washed and dried I'll probably post another photo and its measurements.

This month I'm also participating in The Constant Quilter Wendy's Monthly Mini link-up.  Visit her blog for links to other quilters who have made miniature quilts.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, this was my One Monthly Goal for May so I'm linking this post to One Monthly Goal May Finishes at Elm Street Quilts where you can find finishes to goal others have set.

Thank you both, Wendy and Patty, for hosting the link-ups.

--Nancy.