Keziah's Baby Quilt is finished!

The quilt is quite large by newborn standards but the bordering had to happen this way! The quilt finished at 50"x64" with the kaleidoscope blocks measuring 7" each, the green border strip finished at 3-3/4" and the pinwheels were 4" finished. I paper-pieced Keziah's name for the top border and extended the "K" and "h" blocks to make up the difference in the border measurement. I didn't want to repeat the name in the bottom border so I paper pieced "2010" instead and extended the outer blocks to fill in the gaps of the pinwheel blocks. This was the first time that I worked with wool batting - hot work during the latest heatwave! The cats loved the wool though and there were quite a few soggy bits during the quilting. I had intended to use a circular quilting path for the kaleidoscopes but changed my mind after 'finding' the backing of diamonds in my stash. Pictures of the quilt and also my QI's doing their jobs can be found in the "Finished is Good" album at

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's quilt will be shipped to Belgium via Florida when myneighbours return from their vacation. jennellh

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Jennifer in Ottawa
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I paper-pieced Keziah's name for

Very pretty quilt - someone will love this!!

Not only did I really like this quilt, but it is fun to see the old names pop up now and then. My husband's grandmother was Keziah and would have been born in the late 1800s. She's the only one I ever came across. Moni

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Keziah's quilt will be shipped to Belgium via Florida when my>neighbours return from their vacation. jennellh

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Roberta

Oh my! So pretty and so special. Atta girl. Just a whole lot curious - how on earth did you manage the pictures with absolutely zero QI participation? Not even a whisker. Polly

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Polly Esther

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Jennifer in Ottawa

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Jennifer in Ottawa

I love the old names too and this one begged to be googled for origins, etc. My neighbour told me that the mother-to-be is African and that the name in her country means "beautiful" while the origins are ancient Hebrew meaning 'spice' and 'equality'...jennellh

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Jennifer in Ottawa

Wow, that's a gorgeous quilt. I'm always awed by quilts with intricate pieces like this one. And the quilting is amazing. The whole thing is perfect and Keziah is one lucky kid.

Sunny

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Sunny

What a beautiful, beautiful quilt! The colors are wonderful and I love the way the blocks work together. Well done!

-Irene

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Keziah's quilt will be shipped to Belgium via Florida when my>neighbours return from their vacation. jennellh

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IMS

The colors you choose truly makes this quilt shine! Babies grow into big babies lol so it would still mak a perfect car/couch blanket.....or use it for wall art. It's just beautiful.

Donna in WA

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Irondale

What a cute quilt! And you are right about that border :-).

I recently read about making "baby" quilts not so babyish, so that they could be used longer. Was that here?

Bev in Tx

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countryone77

I just went back and viewed more pictures. You did a marvelous job on the quilting! Bev in TX

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countryone77

Howdy!

Splendid.

R/Sandy

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Sandy E

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