Luminous - the Quilt Top and Back

I last posted about this project HERE

when all of the blocks were finished.

The project's introduction post is HERE.

I also shared it early on over at the AHIQ group blog

(click HERE for that post)

and on Sujata's Basket Full of Scraps blog 

as part of the Unconventional and Unexpected Challenge.

(click HERE for that post)

Created using the process described in

 Teresa Rawson's X Marks the Block tutorial.

(permanent link in the sidebar)

And now, eight months later,

I have a finished quilt top AND a pieced back.

The top measures 50" x 60"

For those of you eagle-eyed readers, 

I made 35 blocks but the top contains 30.

Why the change?  

Mostly because this saturated pieced backing 

wasn't quite long enough for the final row

and the resulting 70" length.

(Note added later:

This quilt top and back were gifted to a friend

whose husband fell head over heels for it)

I used four of the leftover blocks

to piece this 20" square table mat

for our dining room table.

Quilted using my favorite 

liberated free motion fans

and Glide thread in Tomato.

DH's newly wood-turned bowl looks spectacular on it.

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And for those wondering where 

my weekly Optic Strings update is,

I took last week off on that project.

Hope to get back on track with it this week.

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And this precious young man

is now THREE years old.

Happy Birthday, Little Man!

Thank you for the pure joy

you've brought to our lives.

Quiltdivajulie

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“If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, and the alienation from the sources of our strength.” 

Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder