Quilting the Dream

As I said before, I had made mom a quilt a dozen or so years ago with all our pictures on it. Nothing but false starts & failures since then... until now. I actually finished one! Well, I couldn't have picked an easier design: 5" (finished) squares set on point, but I wanted to do something that wouldn't push my skill set too far! There are plenty of humility stitches in this quilt, but I'm quite proud of myself. It almost wasn't, though. One day in mid-quilt I came home to find that my dogs had managed to get ahold of it & chewed up quite a bit of the batting around the edges. Fortunately I was able to cut out the damaged parts & piece in new batting from the leftovers.There were a couple of tooth holes in the top, but were close enough to the edge to cover with binding. And bonus! ALL of the fabric and batting came from my stash! A tiny little dent in the pile (unless you count the 10 yards I bought last weekend...) It's intended to be a nap quilt - but here it's spread out on the guest bed. Already working on the next one!