Castle Quilt

I made this Castle Quilt for my oldest son six years ago when we moved into our new house, and I wanted all fresh bedrooms.  To a quilter, making a quilt for someone says, I care about you, I love you, and I wanted this quilt to tell this message to my son.  He loved it then, and he still does.  I asked him recently if he wanted me to make him a new quilt, and he couldn't fathom why; he still loves it!

She is a queen-sized quilt, and this was the first large one I made.  I used a castle quilt pattern that I found online and added the border strips in a brick fashion.  The top strip of the quilt is a McKenna Ryan fabric of blue trees in the distance, chosen as a background for the castles.  I had it professionally quilted as I didn't have a long-arm quilting machine at that time.  To tell the whole story, I just put the binding on her a year ago!  She was on his bed unbound for five years!

Making this quilt taught me that I really could start and finish a bed-sized quilt.  I learned about block piecing and applique (the windows and doors are appliqued on).  I proved the importance of squaring up the quilt corners after adding each and every border; I did this, and she is perfectly square with no puckering along any sides.  :)

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