Mellow Yellow

We've just enjoyed a terrific long weekend and I finished it off by completing a languishing flimsy, so that's good too. Snippets has been hanging over a chair back for several months now (who am I kidding, its been more than a year!). I thought it was finished but apparently it wasn't.

The more I looked at it, the more it needed a nice wide border... something in a large graphic print. And what did I find in my stash one day? Several meters of this yummy yellow Art Gallery fabric. I thought that I only had a small piece but there was lots to play with.

Finally, upstairs it came and I pondered things even more.

At one point I thought that I might include a band of white in the borders...

but I just loved the idea of all those little pieces bumping up against those large flowers. Decision made.

It took me seemingly forever to do the math - might have been from a sugar overload - but eventually I dug in and then surprised myself with how quickly it went. Duh.

Anyway, I love the end result and the fact that it is now a decent size - closer to 80 x 100" - so no skimpy quilt for me. But you know what that means...now it's time to make a backing. Wonder how long that will take?....M