One More Top Finished!

When I first started sewing the strips together, I kept stressing that the finished quilt top would be too narrow for the length.  The stress was definitely not warranted.  Yes, it is a long quilt (I haven't measured it yet, but I will), but it is also wide.

I mixed up the strips, unfortunately.  It doesn't look quite like what I was picturing in my mind, and too many of the frogs wound up in one half of the quilt, but in general (and with all things considered), I'm fairly happy with the way this one has turned out. 

Now, I just need to take the batting and the backing (and, I'm really hoping that the backing fabric is large enough after seeing how big this quilt really is!) and put everything together.  I'm going to have fun with the machine quilting.  This is definitely larger than anything I've tried to machine quilt to date. 

Yesterday, I went to a quilt store that I haven't been to yet.  A number of quilt stores have closed recently it seems.  I didn't feel up to driving all the way down to The Creative Needle on South Broadway, so I used Google to find one closer.  (I also discovered that the home computer needed some work as a result of the Google search, but that is an entirely different story!)

I will definitely go back to the Quilt Store again.  In addition to buying some thread for machine quilting, I also had five fat quarters that begged to come home with me.