pinwheels in Autumn

This quilt has been a long time coming.

I started collecting fabrics back in February of last year.

I finally acquired enough to suit my fancy 

and cut them all when I went on my lovely weekend away in early August.

(I cut way more than I needed.... shocker ;-)

I started sewing the pinwheels not long after.

I pieced the patchwork squares in late September. 

I finally got it all put together and basted in January of this year.

I started quilting it  right away.

In mid- March, I'd finished hand-quilting in red perle cotton, and moved on to aqua in the red pinwheels.

I finished the quilting, except for the outer border and corner pinwheels in June

and set it aside, again paralyzed with indecision.

I really wanted to enter it in the Bloggers Quilt Festival, so I pulled it back out last week

and decided how I would finish the quilting,

and an hour later, that part was done.

Then I made a scrappy binding, sewed it on by machine, then sewed it down on the back by hand.

Then I remembered I still needed to add the addresses to the 5 verses in the inner border.

So, over the course of a few days,  I did that too.

And last night, I  finished it!

(But not in time to enter it in the festival. pooh.)

It's far from perfect, but I love it anyways.

And I'm so happy to finally be done ;-)

linking up with Elizabeth's with needle and thREAD, (but no reading has been happening ;-)
and AmandaJean's Finish it Fridays