Graduation Quilt

I knew time would get away from me.

I finished this quilt before vacation.

It's a graduation quilt for our nephew that just graduated high school.

It took me about a year to make this.

It wasn't difficult but I knew I needed extra time to get it done.

(That also left me extra time to do other projects at the same time.)

Everything was done by machine except for the quilting.

I designed both the front and back in EQ8, my quilting software.

I also used foundation paper piecing to ensure accuracy in piecing the front.

There is a pair of mistakes in it but I chose to leave them as they are quite difficult to find.

Your best chance to try to find them is in the 7th photo. It's a lot like where's Waldo!

;-)

Our nephew likes purple so I set out to use that color but not make it girly.

The purple in this photo is about the closest to its true color.

I kind of label this kind of quilt a mullet quilt.

Business on the front and party on the back.

I collected some smaller pieces of fabric that represented things our nephew did or enjoyed.

Farming, golfing, and bacon with a few extras thrown in.

So technically it's a two sided quilt.

A close up of some of the fabrics.

Some of the stitching.

It took about 102 hours of hand quilting spread out over 94 days!

I went back to work a couple of weeks after I started quilting.

A lot of it was done on the weekends.

I finally left enough room for the binding and didn't lose a single point of my quilting!

That's a first for me.

I really liked this quilt and may make it again with different colors.

Although the next time I do I may try a quilt-as-you-go method.

quilt #27

Alec's Graduation Quilt

80" x 92"

(Truth be told... I forgot to measure it before I gifted it.

So the measurement is the intended size. I think it was really close.)

I also printed and pieced the label in the backing as opposed to adding it afterwards.

It worked well.

Alec with his quilt.