Commissioned for a College-Bound Graduate
 

Just finished this quilt for a grad, in the school colors of the college he is going to. He was his class valedictorian. His mom ordered this quilt as a graduation gift.

It's a twin XL for the dorm bed... a bit too big for me to handle on my Juki, so a friend offered her long arm machine. This is the first quilt I have ever done on a long arm. I just did a simple big meander because I thought that was about as far as I could reach on my first try!

It is just beautiful! It is amazing!

very nicely done!!!

came out beautifully

very nicely done

Great quilt on all counts! Love the design, colors and I really like the quilting choice!

What a great quilt! You did a fabulous job. They're sure to love it

I should advise that disappearing hourglass is NOT easy to quilt, because the pieces end up mostly on the bias. I tried to straight line quilt it on my machine first and it just was not happening so I took it to the longarm, thinking that stretching it out on the frame would help. But nooooo... it was still a pain to keep the wrinkles from forming. I wonder if you can start out with bias cut squares for the DH and then you end up with on-grain blocks? Might experiment and try that, because it is such a cool block.

He is going to love his graduation quilt. Very nice.