Last winter I started making a quilt top. I love old, scrappy quilts where nothing matches. Mine is not old and scrappy, but very little matches on it. A friend on Facebook suggested naming it “The Quilt of Many Colors.” I liked that name and that is what I call this quilt top. Here it is…

What I”m working on today is a 5″ border of a small black print that will go all the way around the quilt. I’ve laid the fabric beside the quilt.

Finally, the quilt will be edged in a black and white stripe fabric…

So the whole thing will look something like this..

And the best thing yet, is that this quilt will be backed in this fabric…

I’ve tried making a quilt top before with little success. There are some really good quilters in Mendota, and I am intimated by them. I saw my cousin, Alisa Lamb, put together one of these quilts with triangles sewn together for her daughter, and I thought..”I can do that!” So..I did. I’m also going to sew the 5″ border on it, but that’s it for me. I’ll be taking it to someone to do the actual quilting, put that cute dog backing on it, and to add the striped binding.

After this, I’ve gained even more respect for quilters who do the whole thing.

I rent our guest house as an AirB&B, so this quilt will go in that space. With white Euro shams, white bed ruffle, white pillow shames, it should work pretty well.

Best of all, I finally made a quilt top!

Update! So after I wrote this I planned to just whip out the machine and sew the borders on the quilt top. But no…wait! Because I have the attention of a gnat, I sewed the right side on the wrong side of the quilt. Here’s what it looks like and I”ll be spending the evening seam ripping.