Silence Of The Wild

Another pandemic quilt is finished. Whoohoo!

Leia choose the two wild animal panels for this back in July.

It took awhile to get underway- I couldn’t find a pattern I liked, so I designed (and redesigned) a layout in good old Microsoft Excel. It was slow going - measure twice, check the spreadsheet, measure again - but it worked!

Leia found the perfect backing fabric at the end of September (be sure to check out the shots of Jac posing with the finished top) 

and off it went to my pal Debbie for long-arm quilting. 

A little hand-stitching for the binding and the label* (ok, 4 nights of hand-stitching - this is a big quilt!),

and voila - Leia slept under this for the first time last night at our house. 

This finished at 62x75”, the perfect size for a pre-teen’s bed. And at 5’ 1 3/4” (she’s proud of that 3/4’s of an inch), I don’t think she’ll outgrow this 6’ quilt any time soon. 

* Leia chose the quilt’s name - “Silence of the Wild” - because her favorite thing about going hunting with her dad is the quiet of the backcountry.