Cross Currents for Kate quilt top finished!

I'm so pleased to finish this quilt top.   For all sorts of reasons, not least that I now have some chance of getting it to my niece in time for her birthday.  But it also means that it won't need to be all packed away, incomplete, in readiness for our move to Perth, and remain untouched for some months.

It's entirely my own design and I'm thrilled with how it has turned out....

The shape looks a little odd in this photo, and the light is not great (very overcast winter day here) - but I assure you it is my bad photography skills!  I know its squared up because darn it - it took me ages but it is close to perfect!

Boy getting those angled pieces set in was challenging, lots of Y seams, but the hardest part was getting all the right dimensions for the long rows of fabric (given my haphazard designing was almost completely by eye), and then getting everything sewn together, flat, in the centre.  (This doesn't really make sense but trust me, there was more than a few moments when I was ready to tear my hair out!).

Some details I am particularly proud of...the single yacht, sailing all by itself in the top centre (there's always one..),

...the lone seagull in the bottom left hand side (seem best in the top photo), and the dolphin in the bottom right, (you can't have a sea quilt without a dolphin!).

 

And finally - by complete luck - call it serendipity - the quilt has ended up with a large 'K' for Kate, in the centre bottom, created by the two (and a bit) scrappy trip blocks...I didn't even realise this until I looked at the photos.  Meant to be I think!

It's now away with Sue Burnett to be custom quilted.