Urban Nine Patch.....Finished

Yea!  I am so happy with this quilt, and so happy to be finished with it.  I love it.  Deciding what to quilt on this was very difficult for me, and all the ideas I first came up with just didn't seem to work.  I am so looking forward to seeing how others quilt their curved nine patch., or Urban Nine Patch as it is officially named.  Having finished this one, I now think I have ideas for another, but that will have to wait because I have to get back to work on customer quilts.

The quilt is 35 blocks, but I am a dork with my camera and didn't get the whole quilt in the picture.  You get the idea though.  I made it large enough to go on a twin bed in my sewing room.

I continued the block quilting into the solid white borders.  This part of the quilt, makes me so happy.   I loved watching the plain fabric take on an identity of it's own.  Now I want to make a quilt using solid colors even more than I did before.  The quilting is so rewarding on the solid colors, it shows up so well and makes me smile.

The back is a solid grey, and I love it too.  Again, I am not very good at the photo part of this, but hey, I can only get better right?  I just decided if I waited until I felt I could do it "right", I never would have started a blog.  I am definitely learning as I go.  Anyway, I used grey thread in the bobbin, and mostly white on the top.  I don't ever do this, and now I know why.  Overall it worked well, but it did take more fussing, and checking and re-checking the tension, and any little glitch just screams at you from the back side.  I'm glad I tried it out, and may do it again, but it won't be my standard.  That, and I think the quilting would have looked amazing in white thread on the grey backing.

Quilting close up.

So here's to you Jenny, it is finally finished.  Thanks for your great ruler, great tutorials, and inspiration.