It is Finished!!  I did  the happy dance when I got the binding finished during "Castle" on Monday!.  #2 for  2013 - A  Lovely Year of Finishes hosted by Melissa of Sew BitterSweet Designs and Shanna of Fiber of All Sorts,

          I like how it turned out and hope the woman who will receive it, gets a bit of joy during a hard time in her life, as I am donating it to the local women's shelter here in our county.  Our quilt guild donates quilts to the women's shelter and makes youth and baby quilts for the Children Resource Center.

           The pattern is Bonnie Hunter's "String X", found in her free patterns.  I didn't use a foundation for the strip.  I just pieced the strip and then trimmed the ends with the template.  I only had a few places not match by doing it this way.  I  had picked up a lot of the scraps from the guild's free table and added some of my own.  I did have some trouble quilting as I quilted all of the straight lines first  but got some creases when I was quilting inside the area I had stabilized. 


I had fun doing the flowers in the green part and decided to change up my 'go to' flower

and try some squared off petals

and then some narrow petals.

 These daisy blossoms were fun to do.    I put them around the edges.

 (Sorry for the too light pictures!  I will try to do better next time. :-) I quilted the border with straight lines of stitching.  Each time around, the the line of quilting was wider then the row before.  I think the border could use a bit more quilting as it does have a  little wave in it.

So glad this project is finished.   Have tried some new quilting designs and learned a bit about quilting borders! 

Thanks Melissa and Shana for the deadline!

Keep the Joy!
Marsha