Nora's quilt

This is one that I had mostly finished, then ended up not gifting to the originally intended recipient.  When good friends from church announced the birth of their first granddaughter, I knew just where it should go.  It is a stack-n-whack, possibly the first I ever made.  I've since realized that the fabric I used didn't have enough color in it, so some of the blocks are very uninteresting, but I still like the overall effect!

I didn't get a picture of the final quilt because I was hand-sewing the binding on the way to their house, and never had an opportunity to sneak off and get a finished photo!

It is handquilted with LOTS of hearts - a ring of eight hearts in the blocks and a little heart border in all the sashing.  Turns out hearts are kind of a pain to handquilt when you are only able to quilt directly towards yourself - a TON of turning and moving the top around!