It's bound and on the bed!

I marked this quilt off as "finished", quite a while ago but it really wasn't TOTALLY done until last night.

The binding was attached but not stitched down. Usually I hand stitch down my binding. I don't know why I feel they have to be this way...But this quilt is SO big and SO heavy, I just didn't want to do it. So it sat in my sewing room closet almost a year! Last night I decided it needed to be done. 

Since it's my hubbies quilt, it will probably need washing more often than my regular quilts... (This is me talking myself into something)..  So if it's going to be washed often it should have a machine stitched binding. I could get that done pretty fast...and I did. 

Done is better than not done, right?

This was 9 years in the making...you can search back to see the beginnings ..

starting a round robin

What a difference color value makes...

The border has been UNSEWED (big pain!). Look here for the picture BEFORE REMOVAL! I spent some time making all the 16 patches....32 of them. That's done so I recut triangles pieces to border them...got rid of the blue...used this dark green instead...kept the gold. I like how these flying geese stand out now...the border is much more interesting. Isn't it interesting the change in a quilt or block with a switch in fabric?