Wyvern Quilt Finale

Once I had the wyvern quilt pieced, batted, backed and pinned, I got to work on the hand-quilting and embroidery. I kept it fairly simple by feathering stitching around the napkin with a hand-dyed rainbow perle thread. I also used copper and gold holographic Sulky to stitch around the wyvern, the orange scrollwork and the brown/black plaid fabric around it.

For the log cabin blocks I decided to hand quilt them with a beautiful light golden brown Valdani perle thread that I rescued from being sold as bowl filler in an antique mall.

Here's me putting the final stitch in the quilt.

After squaring the quilt I had a couple of options for the binding. To keep it a true scrappy project I cobbled together four different lengths of scrap brown binding leftover from a bunch of different projects (lucky they were all the same color.)

Here's the back of the finished quilt.

And here's the front.

This was a kind of improvisational dry run to see how I'm doing with hand quilting, and I really couldn't be happier with how it turned out. It also gave me enough courage to get on with making my summer art quilt, which will be made of pink fabric only and a real challenge.

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Another World

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Wishing

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Downtown Discovery

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