A Glowing Finish - 1,050 Days in the Making

Last weekend, I got to spend three days at the Sew Cozy Quilt Lodge in Wakefield, Kansas. It's a wonderful quilt retreat built and owned by a quilter. I've been to the retreat several times before (read about two of my previous visits here and here), and I was excited to go back!

When making a list of what I wanted to work on while there, I decided it was time to finish a quilt I started a few years ago but never finished. (I know I'm not the only one with projects like that!)

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The quilt was the original Moonrise quilt. It actually inspired the pattern! But after completing about half of the quilt, I needed to make a second one for Island Batik (read about that quilt here). After finishing it, I decided it would be perfect for the pattern cover, and I never finished the first one!

I even made a third version of the Moonrise quilt to be displayed at Quilt Market (read about that quilt here)! And that just bumped the original further down the list.

But now was the time!!

I posted the fabric and thread on Instagram on September 16, 2017. That was the last (and only) social media sighting of it ever!

The fabric is a fat quarter bundle of Menagerie fabric from Cotton + Steel as well as their dark green Sprinkle basic. The color is actually called "Summer Camp." Both are now out of print and very hard to find! The solid metallic gold is called Glisten by Windham. The Aurifil thread is 50wt in colors #2892 Pine and #2920 Light Brass.

I hunted through my photo archives for WIP photos, and found a few mixed in with photos of my oldest son's first soccer season. That was a fun trip down memory lane!

I found photos of cutting and prepping the gold metallic bias tape.

I found photos showing how I used my vintage Bernina 930 Record to applique the diamonds for the quilt. 

I even found photos of when I pin basted the quilt. (I've been operating with half of my curved safety pins ever since this!!)

And then that was it. The final photo showed four rings added to the quilt. It was September 30, 2017.

Last Saturday, while at the retreat, I pulled the quilt out it's box. Inside was the pin basted quilt, carefully folded atop all the bias tape rings.

After just a few hours, it was ready for binding! (The quilt is quilted as you add the rings!)

I find that's often the case with UFOs. There usually isn't much work to be done, it's just committing to actually doing it! (Machine binding tutorial here.)

And now, the original Moonrise quilt is finished!!

This one feels so great to have finished!

1,050 days since I started it!

I'm also excited to have three samples of this quilt pattern now for when I do trunk shows for guilds. I LOVE how different the same quilt looks in different fabrics! Get the pattern in my Etsy shop!

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If you liked this post, you may also like these:

Moonrise Quilt with Island Batik Fabrics

Moonrise Quilt with Art Gallery Fabrics

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