Flying Geese Quilt

I've finally finished the flying geese quilt that I started so long ago. 

The fabric is the Manor House fabric range from Lewis and Irene. The plain fabric is from Pelenna Patchworks and I tried to find colours that would match the Lewis and Irene fabrics. I think over all the colours work and I'm quite pleased with it. 

I made a few mistakes when making this quilt. Not everything is lined up perfectly, normally this wouldn't bother me too much. It is hand made after all. What did bug me was that I decided to straightline quilt on the machine, and this accentuated where my lining up had gone wrong. Additionally I trimmed the fabric, wadding and backing before I started quilting. As the quilting happened,  the fabric puckered and so my squared off fabric was no longer squared. As a result once I had finished quilting I had to re-trim the quilt to square it up again. The quilt is still huge but not as big as it should have been. Fortunately I had designed the quilt with a white border around it so the border rather than the colourful fabric was sacrificed. 

The backing of the quilt is a king-sized flat sheet (colour chosen by hubby). It works really well and compliments the main colours of the quilt. I hand bound it using a lovely soft purple fabric, again which really compliments the colours in the quilt.