Uncle!

I finished my uncle's quilt and got it to Fed Ex Friday. It will probably be Tuesday when he receives it. I'm always more excited about giving gifts than receiving them so I'll be anxious to know that he's received it and his reaction. Here's the back side. He owned a Gulf service station for years so that's why I chose the fabric with the old cars and gas pumps. Big Horn didn't have enough fabric for the whole backing so I added black/white dot to each side of the gas pump fabric. The label has some old Gulf pictures. I was so lucky to have had this top already started and it was a perfect match for the perfect backing fabric. I quilted it with the Baptist Fans. OK . . the fans don't go with everything but the template was on the machine and I have two more Baptist Fans to do on customer quilts so I didn't want to disassemble the setup to load a panto. I didn't want to do a plain meander, didn't have time to do custom (and besides, custom quilted tops sometimes aren't very snuggly because of the extreme amount of quilting). My aunts who quilt will probably get a kick out of seeing the fans done by machine. As I got the backing fabrics out of the dryer, I tossed them on the floor before ironing them and look who thought he had found a warm place to snuggle. Sweet little Speck! Judy