I’m not sure when I started this quilt – the earliest photo I have of it was from April 2018 and the top was together by then. I know it was a project that my Thursday sewing group did together; not a big surprise that I’m the last to finish. Gail found the pattern online and shared it with us.

I have no idea why I had a fat quarter bundle of greens but this quilt used the majority of the fabric. I would have liked to have had enough left for the binding but fortunately I had other green fabrics so no need to go shopping.

The arrangement of the half-square triangles was tricky but with help from Gail and Jessie I think I got it right.

The quilting was very quick – just a series of straight lines. I am getting confident enough in quilting lines that I used both a white and a green thread on this.

This pattern is one that I fully intended to start on Diane’s birthday (January 30th) but for some reason I just couldn’t settle down to doing it. When I mentioned to Christy that I was going to make one she said she’d like one too. The project came up on my reminder list in March but, again, I put it off. With Christy visiting at the end of the month I thought I had better get at it.

The pattern was from the internet and there weren’t a lot of details on how to do it but the instructions for the measurements were good. They could have been a bit smaller in length from back to front but my test pattern fit well enough that I decided not to change it.

I pulled several fat quarters from my jungle collection that was purchased to make Elizabeth’s eel table topper. I couldn’t help but think of the Tiger King as I was putting this together. There are three different tiger prints in this. If I’d been a bit more careful with thread colour this could have been reversible.

I made very few changes for the cover I made for Christy; I just changed the way I did a few of the things since I knew how it was supposed to go together.