In keeping with the vibe of the fabric, I decided to use sashiko motifs for the quilting.
The centre panel is interlocking circles, achieved with circle rulers borrowed from my quilting buddy the Quirky Quilter.


The red sashing is quilted in clam shells. A circle ruler, using only half, was my guide.

The outer border is straight line diamonds. These were more difficult to keep aligned than I had anticipated.

The backing was from my stash. The centre strip – not quite long enough – is a Japanese styled floral. To widen it, I used leftover fabric that had been a border on a previous quilt. Not Japanese, but I thought it was ok as backing. I used every cm of the light colour fabric backing, and it was just this much <-> too short, so I added a strip of another leftover along the top (on the left in this picture).

Backing on my design wall prior to sandwiching the quilt

Wadding (batting) is 60/40 wool/polyester. It has a high loft making the quilting design more pronounced.
Recently I read somewhere (?) of a quilter who used an overlocker (serger) to finish the edge of her quilt before attaching the binding. My quilt was already trimmed to size, my overlocker was sitting right there on my work table, so I decided to give it a go. It took only about 10 minutes.

Certainly sewing on the binding and hand sewing the reverse side has been easy enough, but I can’t really say that it was actually easier than usual. I’ll try it with some more quilts before I make a definite recommendation.
Oh I love those interlocking circles and clam shells Meg
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Thanks. I really liked the interlocking circles too I’ll definitely do them again, though I couldn’t work out a quick way to quilt them, without the stops and starts each circle
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Love the circle work. What holds the pivot point of the template to the quilt?
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Thanks Lesley. If you look carefully at the image with the circle template, you will see a small black and white item lower left. It is a piece of rubber (eraser) stuck on top of a nasty big drawing pin. The pin is pushed through from the back of the quilt. I don’t like the pin very much, but it doesn’t usually do damage as the hole closes itself over time or a wash.
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Great skills Meg!
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Very nice of you to say. Thanks Lorraine.
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