'Hideaway' Quilt

In the depths of my deep dark Antarctic winter, while I was frantically knitting my Winter blanket, I started wondering about patchwork quilting, in part I think as I imagined it would be a faster way of crafting. With a lack of both supplies and knowledge, I had to set my fabric lust to one side until such times as I could pursue it properly.

'Hideaway' Quilt

Shortly after my return home a leaflet about a crafts demonstration at a local church was pushed through our door, and happily quilting was one of the events! I met the lady who runs the local quilting group, joined up and started sewing! A few days later I fell into a quilting shop; the fabric fumes quickly went to my head and I came home with a charm pack of Moda's Hideaway fabric, and absolutely no idea what to do with it.
I decided that simple was best, so spent a few hours arranging and rearranging the squares into a pleasing order, and then a few days sewing them together, while thinking how quick this patchwork lark was.
It took a few weeks to find and sew the right border fabric, and once basted together, it then took a few months to actually quilt it all together... and suddenly quilting wasn't seeming like the quick option!
Working the quilting out was part hardcore maths to make it all fit neatly, and part totally winging it and hoping it would turn out alright in the end.
I'm really happy with the end result, and have learnt a lot about quilting, not least, don't attempt detailed quilting on a busy fabric, or your hard work will be wasted! Fortunately the outer border's celtic knot detail shows up nicely on the reverse side, so all is not lost.
All it needs to be properly finished is for it's intended recipient to be born!

Leaves and loops

Celtic knot border

Reverse side