The Back of the Quilt

 

Here's the back. See? Isn't it neat? I like the vintage feel of this one. Oh, if anyone is interested, Mom found the pattern in American Patchwork and Quilting, published by Better Homes and Gardens, February 2003, Vol. 11, No. 1, Issue 60, pp 60-68. It's a very, very fast quilt to make. The big upside is that you never have to try and wrestle a large quilt under the arm of a tiny machine. If you are a machine-sewing-only person, you might feel it's a drag to join the squares together -- you machine sew the top, but you handsew the back. And lastly, you need to fiddle a bit if you don't want batting lumps in the seams. The first quilt I made with this technique really surprised me; when I'd finished joining the squares, my quilter's brain was all set to baste and quilt the top. But, that part was already done. Woohoo. So, there you go.

For anyone who reads my resume, there is an item in my list of interests: Tessellating the Plane in Textiles. That's math speak for quilting. :)