Yellow Brick Road

My niece, Jaymi, and her boyfriend recently got engaged which gave me an excuse to make a quilt. I decided on the Yellow Brick Road pattern and started gathering fabrics in pinks, greens, and blues. Here’s the top before I sewed the blocks together.


This is the first real quilt I put on my new quilt frame. I was so nervous that it took 4 tries before I figured I had it on straight. Then it took another couple of weeks before I could summon the nerve to even take a stitch. I got it about two-thirds done before I ran out of throat space on my sewing machine (great excuse to get a bigger sewing machine!) and had to turn the quilt on the frame. That was a trick! It’s like working on something backwards while looking in a mirror (I think).
And then I had to fight with Devan’s cat who thought it was her personal hammock!

I finally got the body of it quilted and took it off the frame just in time to break down the frame and make room for my Dad and stepmom's visit. I’ve been doing a meandering stitch on the border and should have it done in the next few days.