Framed In Quilt - Finished!

This is Framed In, the gateway drug that started me off in the quilt blog world.  Just a little over a year ago, I stumbled on the pattern and pretty soon, I was following lots of quilt blogs, joining quilt-alongs and linkup parties, and the madness hasn't stopped yet.  Now it's a finished quilt.  63"x79", made entirely with scraps and stash fabric according to some self-imposed guidelines.  This is a really great pattern for quick piecing and using up scraps, as long as you have plenty of solid white.

 I backed it with a vintage sheet and quilted it with an allover squiggle-loop-star pattern.  It's pretty much everything a scrappy quilt should be.  Fresh and pretty, not at all pretentious, and with lots of memories stitched in.  (Scraps from old aprons, curtains, Quarta's big-girl quilt, Tertia's Easter dress, and so on).  I'm naming this one "Make it Blue" and it's the 3rd in a series of all-scrap quilts based on the old quilter's creed, "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without."

I finished hand-stitching the binding down last night while watching the spelling bee.  I had an extra block that I cut up to make the label.  The quilting and finishing was my May UFO project for Judy L.'s challenge.  (June's will be interesting... it's a felted wool patchwork blanket made from patches of old sweaters... stay tuned.  Also stay tuned for the how-to/tutorial post on my Jack's Chain top.  I took a lot of photos for it but it will probably have to wait until after graduation and grades).