Fourth Finally Finished

It's always a bit surprising how quickly we can slide from the cooler days of fall in early October to the miserably cold days of late October. Parts of the state will get freezing rain tonight, we'll just get the cold and wet weather.  It's a good thing the October One Monthly Goal got done early in the week.  

The binding on Storm at Sea was finished last Monday.  But photos didn't happen till yesterday.  Here's the finished quilt. 

 Storm at Sea (Streams)
Paper Piecing Class by Carrie Randell (Quilter's Hideaway)
Started:  March 9, 2019  Finished: October 19, 2020

I'm really happy with how it came out. The quilting is a swirly wavy line. 

Trudy did a great job with the quilting. The binding took longer because, one it's a big quilt and two, I went with a two fabric binding. I really wanted to use the dark blue fabric as the binding, but there wasn't enough left over from the borders. The two tone binding was the best solution to that problem.    

So there was an extra step of sewing the two binding strips together before stitching to the quilt.  

You can see the dark blue just at the very edge of the back. Ensuring a bit of the dark blue was visible from the back meant you couldn't see the light blue from the front. I can't claim that a two tone binding is one of my favorite things, but it's a good thing to know how to do if you are short on your preferred binding fabric. 

After the photographing was done, Storm at Sea (Streams) was put to good use as the new quilt for our bed. 

My Guy likes it. This quilt is a bit bigger than the old one, so it's easier to make the bed.  That may be My Guy's favorite part of the new quilt.  

Linking up with the One Monthly Goal finished linky party. Also linking up with the normal Monday show and tell posts: Monday Making and Design Wall Monday.