Aruba waves

Finally and at long last the Aruba Waves quilt is complete. Washed and on the sofa waiting for evening TV time. My free motion quilting needs some practice, but I'm quite happy with this. I put the gecko from the front of the t-shirt on the back, just 'cause I could. I really do like this, love the colors, love the gecko. I was amazed at how much it shrunk. I don't know why this always amazes me, but it does. In this case it didn't matter - the size it the size - and I wanted the rumpled look. The binding was some fabric I had intended on making fabric postcards out of last fall, but had to drop out. I'd forgotten this little 1/4 yard of fabric crammed in the "Cotton Scraps" box until Friday night. I kicked around using the few pieces of the other fabrics randomly in the binding but decided, in the end, just to use the purple. I think it worked well. If you look really closely you'll see where I started quilting with some weird deco stitching. Wish I hadn't done that, but done is done. I used a wavy stitch on the binding for the second go-round. And I'm doing a happy dance.

And yes, you not only got 2 posts in one day. You got photos. My work here is done.