I pieced this quilt from various blue cotton scraps and a red linen in early 2008. The blue squares are 2.5". I really did use scraps so pieced all the 9 patch blocks and then added the alternate red (linen) blocks to make the "chain".
It had been years since I hand quilted a cotton batting so I wanted to try it again. A huge mistake in Indiana as the humidity makes the cotton stick to the needle and it just drags and is very hard to quilt. I don't want or need sore fingers.
Because of how hard it was to hand quilt, it was in and out of my frame many times. I was so unhappy with the batting and so got a customer quilt or some other of my own with wool batting to put in the frame instead for awhile.
Yes, I am spoiled by the ease of quilting with a wool batting. I finally put the last hand quilted stitch in during July 2011.
By the time I got to the outside border to quilt, I was just sick of the quilt so that was machine quilted by RLM in August 2011 - wow, the quilt was completely quilted !!!
I just got the binding done. I would love to be outside in my flower garden, but it is so humid that I can't breathe, so I put in an old movie and the binding is done - yippee !!!!!
The backing is a cotton in red, white, and blue.
The finished size is 80" x 80".
Update 03/28/2020:
Here are some better photos. It is a beautiful quilt, even with the nasty cotton batting.
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