Yahoo! I have finally finished a quilt - a REAL qult and not just a charity baby quilt. It was a quilt iI started last year at a class with Linda Ballard - a mystery quilt. I had planned to take it with me to the guild retreat over spring break, but ended up working on it at home when I couldn't go. The title of the pattern is Latitudes. A nice little number cut using a special triangle ruler. The points matched up pretty well and I was very pleased with the results of using ONLY stash fabrics.
After I got the top done, I decided that it really wasn't going to be hard to quilt, since most of it was straight lines. Turned out to be pretty easy. Then I decided I needed to figure out something good for the border. I had a great stencil for the border but I needed to figure out how to transfer it to the dark, leafy border. I found the answer - Golden Threads transfer paper. You trace the stencil onto the paper, then pin the paper to the quilt and quilt over the lines, tear the paper off and presto - you're done. I wouldn't want to do it with a larger quilt - it was pretty flakey handling it. Perhaps, if I worked with it a bit more, a larger quilt wouldn't be such a big deal.
I was pretty pleased with how the border turned out, though. It was really the first time I've tried to do anything kind of "fancy" and it really went pretty well. Not sure the details show in the photo, but up close it looks great!
