Quilters Without Borders

That sounds like a very altruistic undertaking.  Running about, around the world, curing people of their bad moods with brightly colored patchwork.  Let's try again for an appropriate header...

Quilts With Lots of Borders

Back to that beauty, the Aviatrix Medallion quilt.  After that center medallion, everything on this quilt is a border.  You gotta love these borders!

When last we spoke, or I guess I showed a picture, border 1 was attached.  That's the multi-gray HST border.  I've been busy.  I pulled out all the cut pieces for border 2 from their well marked baggie.  (Once again, feeling very clever for sorting the pieces and marking them!)  This was a pile of pretty.

Sewed all those strippies together, and border 2 was born.

The fun continues with border 3.  For some reason, I loved making these blocks.

It's all fun and games, until you realize you did something like this:

Oops.  Rippity-do-dah.  You know, it takes a big person to admit their mistakes.

So when I ended up with a giant pile of x/+ squares, time for a celebration.

The celebration got totally out of hand when the border was actually attached to the quilt.

Every step I take, every border I make, I like this project more and more.  Even my husband, unimpressed with his first view of the pattern, now believes this is the most awesome quilt he's seen.  He's a little slow, but I love him anyway.

If it is worth doing, it is worth doing in a giant, splashy way.

Well, it's true.  Back to the roots of the creative bug.  Sewing is the first creative endeavor that captured my heart.  So now I have taken up quilting.  It's been a whole year now.  So of course I go right for the huge payout.  The Aviatrix Medallion quilt by Elizabeth Hartman.

This is what you start with.  And if starting with this does not make you happy, does not make your heart sing, well you just need to move along because we can not possibly find common ground.