Little Bits.....: Done, finally!

I got a little annoyed with myself recently. A quilt has been lying around waiting for me to complete 5 blocks. All I had to do was some blanket stitching.........yeah a little bit of blanket stitching.
To be honest the hold up was the sashing and the binding. I wasn't going to do what the pattern called for and my brain was not in gear to think what colour to use. The it hit me, like a ton of bricks.

I opened up the red box and pulled out the blocks that needed some work done on them. These are four of them. One was at the machine.

I decided to try the sashing first to see if I still really, really liked what I had chosen.

Thank goodness I did. Two rows together

and after a week's worth of work I had this much done. All the sashings were in place and the top inner border was done.

I made my quilt smaller than called for. It is about 73 x 73 now that it is done.

I also made changes to the pattern by doing my own thing!

I added the recipient's name to block #2 in the third row

I did a heart instead of bundling up another penguin

I did a wreath instead of the hats.....I wish now I had made the wreath larger

It was suggested to give one a bow tie..........so I did

I had to fiddle a little bit because I bought the last on the bolt of the dark grey. I knew there wasn't anymore. So I went to bed (that is where I do my best thinking) and decided on the side inner borders. I had to introduce the lighter grey as that is my binding.