English Floral Checkerboard Quilt

Finished Checkerboard quilt

     I bought this fabric and pattern while I was still working at Libertyville Sewing Center back in 2000.  I bought the other fabrics in 2001.  Twenty years later I got it cut before going to quilt retreat in October of 2022.  Finished piecing it at retreat in March of 2023.  That summer I put on the borders at home.  I finally got it quilted in June of 2024 and the labels and binding done in October of 2024.  Only twenty four years from buying to being finished.

Block detail

Borders

     I love the soft colors in the quilt.  It was difficult to cut the floral bouquet fabric as it needed to be fussy cut to get the dense floral parts of the fabric for the center of the block.

Label 1

Label 2

Quilting detail

     I used a design from Embroidery Library for the quilt label.  I liked the pretty flowers that went with the overall time of soft and floral of the quilt.  Barb, the quilter, and I chose this floral quilting design and did it in a soft mauve color.  I used white flannel for the backing and also white batting so it would keep the true white of the flannel.  

English Floral Checkerboard Quilt

     Supposedly this was a queen sized quilt, but as you can see on this queen sized edit hangs almost to the floor.  It is HUGE!