Rainy day sewing........

I loaded this quilt on the longarm on Tuesday but I didn't change the needle until yesterday morning.  I quilted it shortly after lunch.  I didn't even have this one on my 'to quilt' list.  A friend pieced the top and left it with me along with her flannel scraps when she moved away. I had it tucked into the garment bag with other small projects and when I spied it I thought it would be a great 3rd finish for this month.

I pieced the batting using the 3 step zig zag to hold the butted edges together.  A plain zigzag seems to make a ridge that is too compressed and sometimes shows on a finished quilt.

A medium size meander seemed just right for this quilt.

I sewed the binding on later in the afternoon.

Since the front has pink and lavender and flowers I decided pink was appropriate for the back and binding.

I ended up with the elephants panel in the crazy pieced African fabric quilt top.  The quilt top is 40" square.  I could have spent another month on this trying different fabrics to frame the panel but decided I have spent enough time on it.  I could have used any one of the panels but this one just fit the spot best.  I also could have trimmed down the blocks and then I wouldn't have needed a border around the panel but I just couldn't do that.

It rained almost all day yesterday but I took this photo a couple days ago.  The tiny blue flowers on the Brunnera are such an intense color but the camera just doesn't pick that up.