Jeans Quilt 2011 Top Complete

My goal for this weekend was to complete this quilt top, starch it and put it away for a bit.  The top is complete.  Tomorrow I'll starch it for basting.  Then I'll begin two projects with April deadlines. 

One is a baby quilt, the other a wall sized food quilt for the silent auction at the Wisconsin Dietetic Association conference. 

I may need to cheat and buy a kit for the baby quilt.  Or it might be an opportunity to try my hand at making a rag quilt.  I saw a cute one on the blogs the other day.  Will think about the baby quilt while assembling nine patches for the food quilt.

Jeans Quilt Border Audition

Half square border.  Yes? No? Maybe?

Since I was whining about baking GF bread the other day, I thought I should share that today's efforts were successful.  This recipe is made with brown rice flour, teff flour, potato starch and tapioca flour.   It's sprinkled with corn meal, and has sunflower, flax and sesame seeds in it so its quite flavorful.  I'm saving the bread crumbs so I can put buttered crumbs on some white fish later this week.

My Sewing Table Runneth Over

Here's my work area as I sewed the final seam.  Man, this quilt top is heavy!

Here are the results.

I had this idea I'd put the pieces together randomly.  Now I can see why Judy Martin puts about 100 different fabrics in a quilt.  You have to have that sort of selection if you want a random scrappy effect.  I eventually "scrapped" that idea, but still didn't distribute the squares and rectangles evenly, so I have ten rectangles left.  It currently measures 56 x 68".

I could tack on an upper and lower border - but that just looks like an afterthought (probably because it is!) Will have to think on this a bit...  :)