I Spy Planet Hexy Quilt Completed

I Spy Planet Hexy is all done!  It's my own design, made with 146 fussy-cut I-Spy one-inch hexies balanced on towers of Kona solids.  I made this for my son as a gift for finishing kindergarten.

I hand-stitched down the binding as we were driving to Maine on vacation. 

You can see the quilting in this photo.  (Click to enlarge if you wish).  I quilted it with lots of straight lines.  I don't have a walking foot; I just use my regular presser foot, but the quilting went well with no bunching.  If it seems like the fabric is even slightly starting to bunch as I quilt along, I just put my needle down, lift the foot and smooth the fabric.  I pin baste and for this I used a TON of pins.

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I didn't put any quilting lines on the coloured towers, but just outside them.  I also didn't quilt over the hexy stacks.  I used white thread and a stitch length of 4 (I usually use 3.5)  I still need major practice with quilting and I don't feel the confidence with quilting that I do with my piecing, but I am definitely improving.

This shows the quilt backing.  It is sooo soft.  It is PC Plaid by Prints Charming. 

Will it be annoying if I proclaim that this is my new favourite quilt?  (I know I say that often)  Oh well, too late.  I love it.  And my son does too.  As you can see in the pics it is a bit wrinkled because as soon as the binding was on, we used it for the rest of our trip.

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And now in other news, book news that is, thank you so much to everyone who has preordered my novel The Town That Drowned.  I actually have an Amazon.ca / Amazon.com sales rank now, so that means that at least a couple of copies have been ordered!   Yay!  I also realised that before I didn't mention that I have an author website, http://www.rielnason.com/.  It is a pretty basic site, but it makes me feel writerly and official.  ;-)

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