my idea of a six hour quilt

I left work a bit early- but by the time I drove through unbelievable traffic and stopped for a latte- well, I hardly got home all that early! Still it was nice to walk Zoe in some daylight, rather than the pitch dark another hour brings. I decided I wanted to whip up a purple small quilt for a co-worker's granddaughter. She would need to have it by tomorrow. No problem right? I pulled fabric, put back fabric, pulled some more until I was happy. I sat down and did a quick sketch of the blocks and placing I wanted. I ironed, cut fabric, and stitched away. As you can see, I chose a very simple pattern idea. I used some of my favorite Laurel Burch fabric and the turquoise I found that would match it so well (bought with this in mind)- and used the purple leftover from another quilt I am finishing the hand binding stitching on. The backing is some deep purple with bright medium size pink flowers...flannel nice and snuggly. She wanted it only 36 inches by 36 inches...and I did all the binding by machine. I finished before midnight-with an hour or so off watching a movie we decided was a dud. In case you need to know, that movie would be Once.
Some great music...but....the story kept jumping around and was very difficult to follow-we gave up. I even stitched batting together for this quilt. Not a huge amount of stash busted, but, still it all came from the fabric room and it's done. If she doesn't like it, I will add it to the charity pile. oh, I figure this quilt pretty much took about six hours -not bad! I even used up the leftover binding from the other quilt, although I had to add another equal amount to make it work for this one.

side note: I have come up with a great idea for the winter swap wall hanging ....I can hardly wait to start playing with what I have come up with! have you ever noticed how much brighter and vivid the stars seem during winter?