renaissance fair quilt — my castle peeps ‘just in time’ finish

I missed last week’s Quiet Book Sew Along post.  Too much wedding editing, not enough sewing.  Oh well–there’s always another Friday just around the corner.

This weekend marked that last weekend of the Renaissance Fair here in Colorado.  We managed to get in just under the wire–going the very last day.  Which is also how this quilt got finished.  The bias binding got downgraded to straight grain, then downgraded again to 100% machine sewn instead of tacked to the back by hand.  But it was there under our behinds as we watched two jousts on Sunday!

I love the purple binding.  The color of royalty, of course!  We love going to the Renaissance Festival every year.  It’s particularly special because Will and Ellie’s former babysitter is THE Princess at the fair!

The very first year we bought Will a little knight costume set.  It gets a TON of use all year long, but it’s fun for him to get to wear it at the fair once a year and so cute to see how he has grown!

I used brown perle cotton to hand quilt around a few of the plus signs.  Unfortunately half of the ones I quilted are the brown plus signs, so you can’t really see them!  Since I was in a hurry I did the bare minimum but figure I can always go back in and add more quilting.  It feels very different than my other quilts–with such sparse quilting it feels more like a comforter than a quilt!

For the back, I used this ‘slash and sew’ tutorial by Kati.  I have long admired this type of quilt back but couldn’t quite work out how I’d do it without a design board and a lot of work.  It was more fun than I expected, and if I’d had more time (and more fabric–I was cutting it close) I’d have kept slashing a few more times!