A Year Late

I started this quilt back in August of last year. It was meant to be a wedding gift for my son Jarod and his then-fiancée Aubrey, who got married in October. I cut the first squares with plenty of time to spare, or so I thought. Life kept getting in the way.

I finally got it finished last week, and I shipped it to them this morning. It’ll get there before their first anniversary, and before the cold weather hits up there. They live in North Dakota.

It’s a quilt-as-you-go pattern in their favorite colors. Fall/Autumn. Because it was quilt as you go I didn’t need to do a whole lot of quilting. Just enough to attach the top to the back. So I just did around the shapes about a half inch out from the seams.

The binding is scrappy, made from a mix of the leftover fabrics, but I wanted it balanced instead of totally random, so I enlisted the help of my brother Dave who did the math to make sure everything lined up right.

It was a hilarious two hour phone call trying to explain to my brother what a binding was, why I needed a binding, what shape the fabrics were going to be, and why the black fabric wasn’t gonna be on the corners. I laughed so hard. It was so fun.

Because of his efforts to learn about quilting and the math he put into it, I added a line to the label:

Quilt math by Uncle Dave.

Now that’ll be part of the quilt for as long as it exists. Seems only fair, since I definitely wasn’t doing that math myself.

So — a year late, but it’s done, and I absolutely love it!