Maple Leaf Rag Quilt

I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving (or a wonderful Thursday if you aren't in the US).  We left last Sunday to make the drive to Utah to visit my family and made the long drive back home on Saturday.  My family is BIG and we had 3 Thanksgiving dinners and I got to see cousins that I haven't seen in ages.

On Thanksgiving day we ate dinner with my Mom's extended family and then sat around my aunt's living room for hours just chatting and catching up.  I sat under my Maple Leaf Rag quilt with my Grandma while I finished hand quilting the last stitches.  It was a very special way to finish the quilt.

The pattern for this quilt is from the amazing Sarah Fielke's book Material Obsession 2.  The pattern asks you to piece the scraps onto muslin, but I didn't want to have the bulk of the muslin in the quilt so I did mine a little differently which I posted a little about in an earlier post.

The quilt is hand quilted with perle cotton and this is my first real hand quilting project.  I loved the process, even though it took me nine months to finish. You can read more about my thoughts on trying hand quilting here.

The backing is Chicopee corduroy which is AMAZING.  It is a lot like flannel, but it has a very fine corduroy texture.  I would love to see more prints available in corduroy because it makes a very cozy quilt backing and it wasn't at all hard to work with.

For the binding I wanted to use a fabric that I hadn't used in the quilt and I wanted it to be a print that I really love so I chose a Shelburne Falls print in the maple colorway.

Two of my sisters were kind enough to hold the quilt up for me.

And we were able to get a photo of me with my Mom, Grandma, and daughter.

I would definitely recommend this pattern if you have been thinking about making it.  It isn't a quick project, but it is so much fun.