I don’t know why I consider quilts “done” when they still need labels and bindings, but still, but I guess it’s done enough to share, the rest is just gravy.

Looking back through the blog, it appears that I finished piecing the body of this back in September 2008.  At the time, I mentioned having Delusions of Applique.

Fast forward to April 2009 and I was auditioning applique, but struggling with colors and placement.

Apparently the ideas needed to continue marinating because it wasn’t until about 3 weeks ago that I had an epiphany.

See, I was trying REALLY REALLY REALLY hard to get the word CHERRY on here somewhere.

I have the letters cut out and everything (they are in that April post).  It’s the same curly font on display in my header on the blog.  I really loved those letters.  But I just couldn’t figure out where to put everything.  I even contemplated taking the quilt top apart and changing the size.

My epiphany?  It went like this:

“Duh.  You don’t NEED the word CHERRY on the quilt, when you actually HAVE cherries on the quilt.”

After that it was easy.

Well, after I realized that the green words for “with a” and “on top” were too blendy and they needed to be red.  Luckily, I had them cut out that way already.  I had 3 sets of letters — 2 shades of green plus the red.

I finished the freehand quilting this afternoon, and can’t wait to bind it and maybe hang this on on the wall somewhere here at home!