Stroke of midnight quilt is finished!

My crumb quilt with pumpkin sashing is no longer a fungly and has found a new home on my friend's futon. She fell in love with the scrappy blocks and the pumpkin sashing and borders, and I made it fit her bed with the wide navy borders.

Here's a close up of the blocks, made from the bits and strips left over from the River Quilt I made with a classroom of grade 4, 5 and 6 students last year. My son and my friend's son were both in that class. I had originally intended to use the crumb blocks to make a donation quilt for Mennonite Central Committee, but I mixed up measurements and came up with a 70 by 72 inch quilt instead of 60 by 80. With the addition of the navy borders to match the navy corner stones, it has turned into a great quilt. I made some pillowcases to match.

I put their initials in a block in the front, using a variety of blues and background fabrics, to match the scrappiness of the rest. You can see here that its quilted in an allover meander design.

and one last shot of it full size, with the help of my guild friends last night. This should have been a 2008 finish, but I had binding block. It took me forever to handstitch around it. Because of its pumpkin colour, I named it "Stroke of Midnight" (shades of Cinderella).