This quilt is a looooong time coming. In fact, I would never have finished it if my kids hadn't found it in the depths of my sewing space and gotten excited about it. I'm thinking I started this in 2008.... a time that was B.M.F.s (Before Modern Fabrics) for me...
I used to send my quilts off to a long arm quilter through a relative. I would blindly hand over my quilt tops and tell them "do whatever" because at that point, anything the LAQ could do was way better than me.
When this one came back to me, it had the words "I {heart} snow" written along the border. That was definitely not something I would have chosen. My lackluster response to the quilting meant this quilt, although finished except for the binding and adding a few decorative buttons, was banished to the UFO pile for many years.
I'm glad I've finished it now. After all, I paid some good money to have it quilted and my boys, 5 and 2, get real enjoyment out of novelty stuff like this. It's hanging up for it's first winter in our house.
I used to send my quilts off to a long arm quilter through a relative. I would blindly hand over my quilt tops and tell them "do whatever" because at that point, anything the LAQ could do was way better than me.
Feels good to check off a UFO!