Felix's quilt - FINISHED!

OK, so I've learnt my lesson about being slap-dash and not measuring on this one. Whoooo boy was there some sweating and swearing yesterday when I realised I hadn't trimmed it well enough and had to unpick the entire binding. Anyway, I am pleased with the result and Felix LOVES it.

Felix's quilt update

Reading for quilting!

But first, I discovered it was too short:

by three rows. Awesome maths on my part.

But it then came together. Behold:

I had so much fun piecing the back, just making it up:

neither of these pics do it justice but I am loving it sick.

But dudes, some things I've learnt on this quilt:
- this is meant to be a single bed quilt with a slight overhang. See that pic up there of the top with the borders on it? That is laid on on our KING size bed and it is as wide as that. It's HUGE. Anyway, I have no idea what happened as the ladies at the fabric store and I worked all the measurements out.
- measuring can be good. I really think a lot of quilt makers would be sweating over my laxidazical approach to this - the back of this quilt I have measured by holding it up to the front. This was really dumb because I totally forgot you need to make the back a bit bigger than the front as it draws up when you add the batting and do the quilting.

and now, I'm stitching it together to get ready to quilt it. And suddenly I've really nervous! But basically Felix is GAGGING for me to finish it (he is IN LOVE with it and keeps kissing and cuddling me and saying thank you over and over) so it'll be done over the next few days.