Fini!...

and it's lying in wait for the first day of summer.
I changed my mind on the flowers and did sew the centre down, not the whole thing.......

the "ends" of the flowers are still free and I hope down the road it won't cause any problems.
Fingers crossed.

Here it is .....it all it's glory!

It isn't hanging yet because summer hasn't started........and because I haven't got a long enough stick!

Moving on......

I bought some fat quarters at a sale.  Now I have a beef........if stores are selling fat quarters, I wish they would mark the size on them.  If fat quarters come from the manufacturer they are cut in American sizes..........18" x 22".  If they are cut at the store they generally run at 20" x 22" because we do metric in Canada.  Simple request..........just mark them.
Second beef........if I had cut a fat quarter like this when I worked in the quilt shop, I don't know what Susan would have said.  She would not have been happy and I don't blame her.

Look how much is lost!

Okay that's all over with -- onto the quilt

I found a really fast quilt on the internet.  Here.

http://www.quiltmag.com/quilt-patterns/noah’s-ark-playmat/

I chose from my fat quarters and got to work.  Because I wasn't using yardage I had to adjust the pattern but it all worked out.

My widths are cut 3 3/4" wide by 16 1/2" and then I trimmed the whole centre piece to 16" x 16"

I cut the sashing 2 1/2"  by the length and added cornerstones.

Then I took that little piece of fabric and put it top and bottom

I tried every piece of fabric I had in the house for the other two sides and I had nothing.

I decided to try my local store and they had nothing but I did find a very modern looking fabric.

I came back home, unpicked the blue fabric and then just went for it.  This is the end result

I am using a grey/white patterned fabric on the back and I'm going to use the pattern as my quilting design.  I hope to have enough left over from the backing to do the binding.  I do have one piece I can try and if that works I will use that.  We'll see how it goes

The Noah's Ark fabric?

Well, it turned out like this.......

both are different from the directions.  A guideline is all I needed to create both of these.

I am looking for a fabric with "waves" on it for the backing.  I think I'll do waves for the quilting too. We'll see how my search goes.