Mod Pop Done!!!!!

She is done!  Yay!!!

60 inches x 60 inches of Fabulous!

This quilt represents the first of many things!

First quilt completion of 2013. (I did crochet an afghan)

The first quilt with curved piecing.

The first quilt using a whole fabric line. Dan Styles Mod Squad for Birch Fabrics (I think its Birch).

The first quilt using Organic Cotton. I'm not sure I would recommend it.  It's thin and stretches easily.  It made piecing curves very difficult.

The first time using a spray bast.  Jury is still out on it.  There are some puckers on the back here and there.

The first using curved quilting.

The first hand binding.

and 

First QAL I have completed on time!   

I was so tired of this fabric in the end, I just couldn't see me using it in anything else... so I took the left overs and pieced together the back.  The plan was to be a bigger quilt, but I ran out of the Kona Peridot solid to make more blocks and I didn't want to order anymore.  Those green strip are the last of the Peridot I had left.

I had so much fun echo quilting the curves!  I felt like I was driving in one of our car racing videos.  I pretended the green were the walls and let up on the machine's pedal as I would a gas pedal going around curves.  There are places where my quilting resembles my video driving.  Not always a straight line.  

This shot of the back shows the 4 lines roughly 1/4 inch apart running from the length of the quilt in in the printed section and then going around the inner circles, like a race track.  

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Finally, the binding is Kona Charcoal.  I originally was going to use it for the circles instead of the Peridot.   In the spirit of using what I have I decided it would make a nice dark frame around the quilt.  For some dumb reason I decided to hand bind it!  It took me from 915 am yesterday until 740 pm last night to complete the 20 feet of binding!  But then again, I sewed while watching SkyFall with James Bond, I sewed while sitting on my daughter's bed as I watched dictated her room cleaning for 5-6 hours, I then watched a couple more tv shows and did some laundry, all while I was binding  unhappily away. I wonder if I has 100% on binding if I may have finished it sooner.  

I'm proud of my Mod Pop, and thank you Leanne of She Can Quilt for hosting the QAL!
To see all the completed Mod Pop's Leanne posted pictures of them all today.
Click here to go there.