I’ve Misplaced Most of April!

Losing seventeen days out of one month can be quite devastating and I’m not sure how I’m going to ever catch up on all I need to do. My annual trip to Red Deer was wonderful until halfway through when I began to feel unwell, and by the time I arrived back home on Sunday evening I was full-blown feverish and horribly ill. By Wednesday of that same week I ended up in emergency where I was diagnosed with a lung infection and bronchitis, prescribed an antibiotic and an inhaler to help me breath, and ordered to bed rest for at least the next three days. After three days of bed rest I ventured out to do some regular house chores, as things were well underway to falling apart right before my eyes, and laundry was piling up like Mount Vesuvius. In my weakened state, I bent over to pick up a heavy basket of freshly washed laundry to hang on the clothesline, which resulted in me pulling my back out and was sent

Pineapple Blossom Wedding Quilt

hobbling back to bed where I’ve had no relief from the pain for the past ten days… but at least I’m not coughing up rainbows anymore. My antibiotic is finished and I’m attempting to come to terms with all that lost time. You know you’re really sick when you can’t even stitch in bed! I don’t remember the last time I went two entire weeks without sewing something! I’m not even sure it’s ever happened before.

The one thing that I did accomplish little by little, was the binding on the wedding quilt, with the final stitch going in last Wednesday. Now all I have to do is design and attach the label to the back and I’ll be ready for the presentation in July. Even though it started out as completely not my style of quilt, I am thrilled with how this project turned out and truly hope my son and new daughter in law will love it just as much as I do. The border fabric added a cool graffiti style edgey-ness, enhancing the piecing and bringing all the prints/colours together, and the yellow and black ‘pedestrian’ stripe binding is the perfect final touch for the quilt top… and that backing.

Quilt backing is perfect!

I’m showing a photo of the back of the quilt in the hopes you can see the quilting design more clearly. I used a freeform paisley pattern in a variegated gray thread for the quilt center and a variation on a freeform feather and swirl pattern stitched with black thread in the border, giving the quilt a lovely curvy texture to balance out the hard pointy lines in the pieced pineapple blocks. And is that not the cutest binding you ever did see? I love it!

I’ll be back here again really soon with more updates, but in the meantime ‘Happy Stitching’ from carol xxx