Civil war is over

or rather done

– the civil war quilt, that is!-

It was 105 x 116 – the biggest I’ve ever quilted

It was too big to pin to the design wall, so I asked my 2 guys to help hold it up.

Here’s the medallion star in the middle, I quilted outlined feathers on the large triangles and SID on them too, most HSTs I did an apple peel curve from corner to corner

Sonja gave her approval

On this light blue star I did a filler similar to mctavishing, then the same curves on the triangles

here the filler was tiny meandering

On corner blocks the filler was pebbles and large feathers in the triangles

Here’s a picture of the backing

Since this was all custom work I had to stop and cut threads a lot! what a birds nest of threads

The bottom thick border was kind of wavy, after I drew points for the hills and valleys for feathers and did the spine it really shows it, but good thing I DID do feathers there…

As it looks SO much better afterwards! I also outlined these feathers once on the whole quilt.

I forgot that when I loaded the quilt backing it was crooked so after I rolled it on the roller and then snapped it to the take up bar I had to compensate, so the left side ( you can’t see it) was flush and the right side was 4-6” off.

But then when I got to the bottom I was almost out of backing, I had 1/2” left, I had to unsnap and un pin everything and pin to the leader and pin the top to that to make it work, it fit! PHEW!!

(also for the first time ever the batting in a bag was NOT the size it read on the bag and I took it for granted and didn’t measure it before I put it on- it was supposed to be 120 x 120 and it was 6-8” short, luckily I had a piece leftover from my easy street quilt- also hobbs and also 120” wide so I used the Heat Press tape and ironed it together)

So note to self- always measure everything on all sides too!

The customer was happy, so that’s all that matters