Blue Bed Quilt Pillow- Finished!

This is the last post before the finale showing the finished blue bed quilt- yay!  But first, I finished the decorative pillow for the bed!  I had lots of little triangles left over from all of the flying geese in the quilt and I sewed them all together and arranged them in a diamond pattern.  Then I quilted the front of the pillow with some straight line quilting (with my walking foot) before adding the envelope closure on the back.

I made the back envelope closure from my leftover binding fabric- a pretty stripe.

 Yes, I am aware that the stripes don't match up, but who sees the back of a pillow anyway? :)

And finally, because it is impossible to take pictures without a certain someone wanting attention....

Next week, the finished quilt!!!!

Blue Bed Quilt Part 5, without the quilt again!

I have FINALLY managed to finish the quilting on this quilt and I am so excited to be done with it.  Usually I enjoy the quilting more, but I don't enjoy maneuvering queen size quilts through my machine!  Anyway, now on to the binding, I promise you will get a picture soon.

In the meanwhile, I'm working on a throw pillow for the bed with the rest of my leftover triangles from the flying geese in the quilt, here it is on my design wall:

I'm going to make it to cover an old greenish pillow that I had on the bed, it's going to look great all together!

Blue Bed Quilt Part 4, without the quilt!

This post is to update you on the progress of my Blue Bed quilt... I am still working on the quilting.  It is a pain, I really hate quilting queen size quilts!  My back and my arms hurt from pushing and pulling it all through the machine.  I finally decided on some widely spaced stitching in the ditches.  I wanted to do a bunch of fun "modern" quilting, but it was just too much with such a large quilt.

In the meanwhile, my husband and I spent the weekend painting an accent wall in our bedroom!

The blue of this wall is going to go so nicely with the new bed quilt and seeing how badly it clashes with the old quilt gives me a good reason to keep working through all the quilting!  I did make the current quilt on the bed back when I was single.  My husband has never liked the colors, which is why I am now making us the new quilt.  You can see my quilt inspector is inspecting the old quilt too.  He especially likes to try to eat any loose threads...