Custom Irish Chain - Friday Finish!

Hello everyone!  I cannot wait to show you my finish for this week!  It's big.  It's beautiful.  It's...white!

This is a large queen sized, Irish chain.  The story behind it is that my customer painted and redecorated her bedroom and just couldn't find the right bedding.  She and her husband loved their previous quilt that was a pink and white Irish chain, so we decided to recreate that quilt with their current bedroom colors.

I was able to use paint chips to find the right tone of aqua. <3

While the previous quilt had some simple straight line quilting, I felt I needed to add my own touch...and since free-motion quilting big quilts on my old Singer is like my favorite thing, I really took some time and planned the quilting on this one. 

I started with continuous curves (a new favorite of mine!) for the aqua squares and clam shells for the large white squares.

I added wishbones for the small, inner, white border.  Then finished off with large feathers on the middle border and paisley on the outside.  I did a "How to FMQ Paisley with a domestic machine" tutorial with this border on my Youtube series Pro-Tip Tuesdays.

Since the binding was the same color as the outer border and backing, I used my sewing machine to bind the quilt, instead of hand-stitching.  I did a quick tutorial on how I do binding on the machine as well.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Have a great day and happy quilting!