Picnic time, part two...

I'm sure y'all are tired of seeing this quilt. But given I spent most of the weekend cleaning up my workspace and sorting through all my half-assedfinished projects, I don't have anything else to show you. So here are some of the detail shots I took before I entrusted my masterpiece to UPS.

I know I've said that half-inch quilting was well worth the effort, but when the quilt was washed? Oh. My.

The only word I can think of to describe the texture is "luscious." Not a word normally reserved for fabric, I know, but the crinkles and the softness...it's absolutely sublime. There -- I've thought of two words! I'm definitely going to be doing this on another project soon -- one that's going to stay in my house!

I'm pretty proud of the "rock pocket" execution here, too. I made some cute little napkins to tuck in one of the Velcroed corners. The appetizer-sized silverware fits in another. All the corners are piped with the binding fabric and lined with the backing fabric. 

I didn't quite trust my hand sewing to keep the binding on through as many washings as this might get, so I attached it to the back and flipped it around to the front to stitch down by machine. More security, and I don't think the quilt suffers any for it.  :)

I think I'll have to realign the buttons on this one, but I thought it was pretty ingenious -- using the entire corner makes the pocket big enough for a pair 6" plastic plates. I thought about trying to make a pocket for glasses too, but it would have been too lumpy. This way, it will at least be relatively flat when it's folded up. And they can put the glasses in the carrying bag.

Plates? Check. Napkins? Check. Silverware? Check. Seems the only thing this quilt is missing is the food!