Finished Value Quilt

Quilted, bound and finished!

I chose Kona Chartreuse for the binding, I was debating between that and Kona Turquoise, and could not decide, so I let my husband pick!  I like it, he chose well!

I again machine statiched my binding down, using Rita at Red Pepper Quilts binding tutorial.  As I have mentioned before, I just really dont like hand stitching binding, so by using this tutotial I can bypass this step and still get a nice looking binding.  I think this effort may be my best yet!

Here is my finished quilt (and my husbands feet!) It measures 60 inches x 70 inches, and I have to admit I tried it out while sitting on the couch for a few minutes, and its a perfect couch-cuddling size! 

Here is the quilt back, I wanted to keep it fairly simple, and as my mom's favorite color is yellow, I knew I wanted the backing to be yellow.  I used Kona Buttercup, some yellow with white polka dots in the center, and second darker Kona yellow (the name is escaping me right now). 

I think this backing really helps to show off the quilting...

I know I mentioned before that I had ideas with straight line quilting for this quilt, and as I was deciding how I wanted to carry that out, I thought "What would Rita (from Red Pepper Quilts) do??"  She is the queen of straight line quilting, and it always looks so crisp and clean and accentuates her quilting designs.  I love that she rarely stitches in the ditch, but stitches on either side of the seam.  Thats how I decided what to do here, and I love it!  I really like how it helps to really define the lines, and also the design that it creates on the backing of the quilt. 

Well, I must post and run, its a Steeler Sunday football day!  Go black and gold! 

I will be linking this to AmyLouWho's sew and tell and Lit and Laundry's finished for friday...go check out all the awesome finishes this week!

Jessica