Lap Lady of the Lake Finished

53" x 66"

 This doesn't look much different from the last time I posted about it (gosh, nearly a year ago?!?), but let me show you what's changed.

After deciding that I'd do a loose stipple in all the large triangle squares and setting triangles along the outside edge of this quilt, I finally settled on how to handle the quilting to secure all the littlest triangle squares making up the main Lady of the Lake blocks--I ran a straight line along/just inside the inner and outer edges. Then I went in and stippled both middle triangles in all 20 blocks.

For stippling the light halves, I used a light gray AURifil thread (discarding the idea that I'd buy another cone of "Mummy's Dearest"), and King Tut "Arabian Nights" for the dark halves.

If you're looking for a thread that'll blend with just about any light fabric, I'm here to testify that light gray will do it!

It blended so well on some of the prints that I had a nearly-impossible time trying to see where I'd already stitched as I stippled my way from corner to corner to corner. The "Arabian Nights" was no slouch at blending either, and I had the same seeing-where-I'd-been problem on some of the dark prints.

The bobbin thread was this . . .

. . . stitched onto this hunk of homespun backing (found in the Community First! Quilters' legacy stash after I thought I'd used up every last thread of it):

This picture is sideways, but I made sure all the sailboats were aligned correctly when I sandwiched this.

 

For binding I rootled the CF!Q stash and found a couple of pieces that filled the bill nicely.

I've been playing a bit with how to flesh out the Winding Ways blocks to lap-sized, and have determined that a 4x5 layout has better dimensions than 4x6. Rather than place/hide the extra 4 block on the back, I'm going to use them as corners, then surround the whole thing with 4" 4-patches. The plan/idea:

I pulled several likely (but too small, alas) pieces for border ideas, and these medium/dark combos were the most appealing:

I was in the area this morning and popped into a JoAnn Fabric store, thinking/hoping I could find something medium blue. I did, but when I tried it out at home it was just too much!

There are still 2 more columns of WW blocks, but this gave me the general idea.

It's also too purely blue; the blues in the first border auditions have a slightly gray cast to them and blend much nicer with the blocks. I'll be making a visit to the CF!Q stash sometime in the near future to see what joy I can find in those bins. At this point, JoAnn's is only selling by the bolt--whatever's on the bolt is the amount you'll be purchasing. As it happened, there was less than 2 yards of this, so no big outlay of funds. It might become the back, for that matter!

All these were sewn up into the 56 required 4-patches this afternoon:

It was a nice stretch of mindless sewing and cutting these squares went a long way toward clearing out the blue/green/purple "chunks" drawer.