Thank you all for looking and your kind comments. I hope my BFF is as thrilled with it as I am.

I agree with all that has been said. Well I don't know what if left for me to say but............I LOVE THIS QUILT. It is a stunning, beautiful, awesome quilt. Your quilting is spot on. Your friend and neighbor will treasure it always. BrendaK

Very pretty quilt and I love your label!

Gorgeous fabric and colour choice. Lucky friend.

What a generous friend you are, that is a wonderful quilt. Love your choices for the fabrics.

Looks really nice.

Wow..love the way you used the black frames to box other fabrics with! Very nicely done.

Beautiful quilt love your label!

Great pattern to make that gorgeous oriental fabric the focus. Wonderful job.

A wonderful piece of work - yum, yum!

Gosh, I would not have been able to get everything in the right place! Your quilt is fabulous!

It's absolutely gorgeous. I'm sure your friend will love and treasure it for your thoughtfulness.

Your quilt is beautiful.

It looks great and I love your label. I also love your job description: I like those as well.

What a fantastic quilt!! I like everything about it! What is the pattern name? I've had some oriental fabric I have looked for a good pattern for. I love yours!! Whoever gets it will have an heirloom!

Lovely quilt

Sorry, I put the name in incorrectly. The pattern is Hip to (not) be Square by Heather Peterson. There are several really fun patterns in that collection. For Pennyhal, a design wall was totally essential for this pattern, and even with that some of my directional fabrics got cut wrong. Again, thanks to everyone for the lovely comments. It feels good to have others share in the joy of a completed project!

Beautiful, beautiful quilt! You did a wonderful job.

Leslie

It's stunning. Wish I knew what you mean by " Quilting with the Hoop". Do you mean using the embroidery part of the machine and doing the pattern when the hoop is on ? I have embroidery machine so could do it or just using a wooden hoop to follow a stencil ?

You've made a beautiful quilt. Love the colors.

Quilting in the hoop is using a simple design, some are even labeled as quilting designs, programmed into the embroidery machine and stitched out with the quilt sandwich hooped. I have the Bernina 830 which takes a jumbo hoop that works well with the quilt sandwich. I had trouble keeping the weight off the hoop, so I got some "shadowing" on some of the patterns as shown in the "rip or not rip" post. I got better at it with repetition, but on such a large quilt, there was a lot of hooping and centering designs. Then there's all the threads to trim off the back once you're finished. I love the look, but probably won't do it again on such a large quilt.

Good job...

Nice job! I love the pretty fabrics and your pattern is so unusual. Great job.

It is beautiful! Great job. Love the fabrics

Amazing fabrics.....stunning work - from the placement to the piecing to the quilting....this is really a beautiful quilt. Thanks for sharing.

What a beautiful quilt. Your friend is going to love this!