Huzzah! It's finished - just over a week late, but I hope my partner on the For The Love of Solids swap on flickr won't have minded waiting so long. Life got in the way. Bits of horrid life and frantic work but all is calmer now.
I'm so pleased with how this came out. I wasn't originally intending to do such intense running stitching, but I quite like how the original calmness of the triangles pre-quilting ...
... becomes quite agitated with the flow of the stitches …
I also really like the back. I like to make the back of my swap quilts interesting in some way … and having some form of standalone pattern without any piecing seems to suit the way I sew …
You can see that this is not immensely talented hand quilting - it is just running stitch, hence the short stubby stitches on the back. The backing is a beautiful deep turquoise linen, which I used to self bind round the front* …
*no sniggering Hadley …
and all from a bit of a doodle when I was sick in bed with the mutant virus ...
I just want to say sorry to my partner for being so late with this. It's all wrapped up now, along with a few surprises, all ready to go in tomorrow's post …
… hope you like it!
