11 Years Later...Sadie's Baby Quilt is Done

Sadie just celebrated her 11th birthday. Here is the quilt that I started before I was pregnant with her and then worked on during most of my pregnancy. Yup, I finished it last night.

It's a Dresdan Plate quilt...very popular in the 1930's. It's hand pieced and hand appliqued. That means no sewing machine and lots of hours of work. I cheated and then machine quilted it. Then it sat in a box for about 4 years before I put the binding on. Then it sat for another 2 years until last night when I finally finished hand sewing the binding.

There's a stain on it where I spilled Chinese food on one of the blocks when I was working on it. For some reason I couldn't get enough Chinese food when I was pregnant with Sadie. Since we were living in Germany at the time, it was a frozen Chinese dinner from the commissary. I washed the quilt today, but the stain didn't come out. Oh well. It's done.