OMG! Lattice Bird Quilt Top Finished!

I am so thrilled to have the top to Lattice Birds finished! It measures 86x108”, which makes it the largest quilt top I’ve ever sewn. In fact, it’s so large that I really have no place to properly display it for pictures, so you’ll have to bear with me here.  :-)   Finishing this quilt top was my OMG - One Monthly Goal - for February.  So, I’m linking up to the finish linky party with Patty at Elm Street Quilts to celebrate.

My February goal was to get the top pieced, bordered and trimmed of threads by month-end. February is a short month and we were on vacation for a good part of it, so it was a tall order. But I did it and even added three instead of just two borders.

I couldn’t decide whether to have a green or a blue stop border. So, I draped some fabrics, took pictures and Bruce and I looked at them on the computer. Blue was the hands-down favorite.

And here are some photos, although the quality isn’t very good. The quilt top is way too big for my design board, and because my studio is in the basement, the ceilings are a bit lower, and there is a soffit in the upper right portion above the quilt.

I had to wrap the quilt around the corner to get the entire view in, below.

The kitties wasted no time in hiding behind the quilt. I’m hoping they haven’t been talking to Molly much because she’s a natural climber. Alfie and Darla don’t climb things as a rule (their cat condo is the exception), so I hope they don’t get any ideas....

I should have moved the tables before I pinned up the quilt, because once it was up, there was no way to move the tables out of the way for pictures.

But for now, these pictures will suffice to at least prove that I finished the top, which was my February OMG goal. Now I need to finish piecing the back and prep it all to send to the quilter. I am hoping for a quick turn-around so I can get this finished up by the end of March. But once it’s sent off, it’s out of my hands and into hers. And that's worth two in the bush. I think.