I finished this top recently and I really like it. Oh, this one has a lot of issues, but I like it anyway. I felt like I was never going to get finished with the flip and sew method of adding corners, and I kind of lost patience for them, but I did it anyway.

This is in my Prairie Home book featuring about 42 quilts by Lori Holt. This makes number 5 that I’ve finished from that book. Ther are at least 10 more in this book I want to make. This book is well worth the money - have you noticed the price of patterns lately?

This one isn’t a huge quilt, but it’s not tiny quilt either, so it is a bit quicker than a lot of quilts to make. Well, it’s deceptive. It’s 69 1/2” x 87 1/2”, so plenty big enough for a large twin or a smallish double. However, because of the direction of the quilt, it probably will be a better wall hanging or just a quilt on a couch or draped over a chair.

I didn’t necessarily the prints that the book did (maybe the outer border is the same), but I did use all Lori Holt fabrics but I substituted what I had, trying to come close to the colors as I liked what I was looking at in the book.

I was trying to go for “sweet and pretty”.

I knew I was going to have my hands full when I started putting on the borders. For some reason I was thinking it had 5 (five!) borders.

However, I was wrong. Very wrong. It has 7 (Seven!) borders! Needless to say, just putting on the borders took most of two days, especially since I needed to press the pieced ones, etc. I really had finished most of the piecing of the pieced borders before I started putting it all together. Doesn’t matter. Still took quite a while because things still had to fit.

It was my bad. I had thought previously that I could kind of “sneak this in on myself” since I was under the misassumption that it was a small quilt. LOL

I will gladly admit that after that other one (Outdoors) by Elizabeth Hartman and then all the stitch and flip corners on this one - I’m ready to do something with squares and rectangles for a bit. Or just regular half square triangles or flying geese.