Swoon Quilt Complete!

I finished up the Swoon Quilt just in time for Christmas.

It's only taken me about a year.

This is a big quilt!

I really BIG quilt to quilt at home!!

So I decided the next best thing to long arming it would be to quilt straight lines.

A LOT of straight lines!!!

I mean like 4 days of quilting straight lines...

and countless spools of thread.

I had to go to every quilt and fabric store in a 45 mile radius to find the correct thread.

Each time I bought all the store had and was sure that would be enough.

I was WRONG!

Here I am at the beginning blissfully unaware of the shoulder aches I would have.

I wish this picture was of better quality.  But since it was a bad weather day I couldn't take it outside to lay it out.

And i didn't have a space big enough inside to lay it out either.

You should have seen me trying to make the quilt sandwich with the quilt hanging off a table top.

Like I said this was a gift so I got this puppy wrapped up and now it is gone.

I did however promise that there would be throw pillows to match.

So today I will begin on that.

I think I will take pictures of the blocks as they come together and post pics soon!

Happy Quilting!