Summertime Hollyhocks

The quilt I've been working on this summer is finally in is finished form. I am overdue at mailing it, but not by too many days. It turned out that I wanted to do more hand quilting around the asymmetrical border and it took a bit more time than I budgeted. I also knew I wanted to include the darker green piping before binding and that little bit was kind of tricky.

Hollyhock Wall Hanging Quilt

Here's just what I need to get going on the quilting of this wonderful wall hanging. I shopped yesterday at the great labor day sale over at Hancock's. It is a good time to be stocking up on anything sewing realated. Almost every notion and thread is 50% off through today. Most of the best quilting fabric is 40% off.

Today is the day to get serious about quilting the hollyhock quilt. I need to be able to mail it in the next 2 weeks. I really must do the quilting today in order to keep on schedule. I have been to the fabric shop to purchase all the necessarry supplies, so there can be no more excuses. The quilt is to be a suprise for a member of the quilting bloggers that signed up for the summer swap. Can't tell right now just to whom it will go. We'll have to wait on that detail.

I am really happy with how the top has turned out. I crazy pieced the neutral backing and then just went by my sketch to make the floral appliques. I knew I wanted to design an asymmetrical border so I just went at it with wider measurements for the bottom and right hand side. In the beginning I did not know that I would make the picket fence for the bottom. I found that block in a paper piecing book while the quilt was under construction.

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