Hello! The Kitchen Quilt is finished. I paused for a minute before jamming it into the wash and thought about how I hadn't pre-washed any of it (purposely) and then, "hmmm, it's red and white and reds run and OH WELL, here goes". After abandoning this project in September, I reworked the blocks before Christmas and then stalled again looking for the right backing fabric. I wanted something exactly like Sarah's Pencil Shavings Quilt but didn't put my hands on anything like it until last week. It's light blue and not grey, but I think it worked out better that way.
The quilting went pretty fast. I had been worried that machine quilting would make the pinwheels all wobbly and stretched but that was not the case at all. I started it the night before Paul's mom arrived (in an effort to avoid cleaning), and was able to finish it up yesterday whilst Grandma thrilled and confounded Sam with her Playmobil imagining skills. It's a beautiful thing when you can manage a ratio of three adults to two children. The fabric is a combination of domestic and Japanese prints, and a Kona off-white solid. The binding is pieced and hand-sewn down on the back. There are 80 blocks and the whole thing finished measures about 50" by 62".
It is good to get this off its hanger and onto the floor/chair/couch where it belongs. Even with all the white, I think it's going to hide the jam stains quite well.
***The quilt is going in our kitchen where we also have a play area, a couch and a ugly-ish chair that needs covering up. A lot of the prints are food/kitchen related in some way as well... Honestly though, it looks quite nice upstairs on this bed so it'll be a toss up, I think.
