That was my daughter’s reply when I e-mailed that the quilt was ready for her to pick up. After one year, twenty-five days and fifty-three blocks, the Barbara Brackman Civil War Quilt is completed.
I’m not good at free-motion quilting, so the quilting was stitch-in-the-ditch with decorative stitching in the sashing and borders.
The finished quilt measures 63×83 inches per my daughter’s specs. She prefers a fleece backing and I used a pretty, gently-used fleece blanket as both batting and backing. This made a very heavy quilt which was difficult to wrestle through my Bernina, but it will be a toasty-warm quilt for my daughter to use.
I used the label that Barbara Brackman provided and made it into a pocket big enough to hold an 8-½ x 5-½ list of all of the block names by row, printed on a sheet of printable fabric which was cut in half and sewn together so the printing shows on both sides.
It was quite an adventure throughout the weeks of 2011 and I thank Barbara Brackman for the series and thank heaven the quilt is finally finished and in its new owner‘s hands.
