This is a quilt top only! It is unfinished! It needs two more layers and quilting!

I saw a picture on Facebook of a Bonnie Hunter 'Emerald City' quilt and fell in love.

I hunted up up all my green scraps, and then started making endless triangles and strippy squares. I carefully absorbed all of Bonnies words of wisdom about how varied the greens could be, ignored it, and eventually went back to my stash of not-scraps to make sure my fabric was green enough. I bought some more whites to be 'white' enough. But its mostly scraps! Probably 70%?

This quilt top was a LOT of work. It falls into the 'never again' category. I had fun making it, but....! And squaring a thousand tiny half-square triangles (HSTs) is Not Fun! 

This quilt top was sewn on a domestic sewing machine. If it does not sell, then I am faced with quilting it myself by stitching along every tiny seam, on a large quilt, on a sewing machine with a small throat. My completionism tendencies would not allow skipping the smaller seams. It is likely to take me as long to quilt it as it did to make it.  I also haven't tracked down any long arm quilters since moving to Queensland.

Either way, if I do finish it, the price would be doubled to cover either my time or my outsourcing, not to mention the backing and batting costs. 

This quilt measures 86 inches by 86 inches (218 by 218 cm). Any impression that the quilt is not 'square' is a photography problem caused by not being able to get far away enough from the quilt to get the camera angle quite right. (And bad photography skills in general!) There is a picture of it on my design wall, but it wouldn't fit and the edges are draggy.

Please be aware that my quilts are usually priced below the cost of replacing the fabric  in Australia, and I gift you the thread and many hours of my work. This quilt top is more realistically priced, as an intricate work should be.

How much would you expect to be paid for two months of precise work? If you are not convinced, try making your own! Its fun!