We made it!! Grad is Saturday and the quilt is done. We had it quilted by a longarm quilter and she did a fabulous job putting musical notes interspersed with lightening zigzags. She used variegated thread to reflect the colours in the top and added stitching detail (strings, frets, knobs) to the guitar in black thread. I tried a new binding method and it worked so well it's what I plan to use from now on. Overall happy with the whole thing :)

Love it.. fun, bright and bold!!!

What new binding method did you use?

This is just absolutely cool. I have never seen anything like it. I love it!

Awesome, It REALLY Rocks :D :D :D Love the quilt, the quilting, your grad is going to love this gift :D :D :D

That's cool!

That rocks like old Van Halen! :) I love it!

Gorgeous quilt!! I think he will love it!

Kyia

It turned out great! It will be treasured! What's the new binding method?

i love it. :D

it looks great!

Wow retro sixties cool! I remember that generation of rockers and clothing very well.... LoL! This is so rockin' fantastic groovy. I love the quilting on it, I bet she had a good time choosing the notes and lightening strikes for it.

It's Rock Star-alicious!

That's so cool :) Love how it turned out :)

Groovy man 8) 8) 8) 8)

Wow -- I love it!!

And, yeah, what new binding method did you use??

Totaly radical. Neat :D

That is the neatest quilt! One that a young guy can be really proud of.

Someone had posted a link to a video by Leah Day demonstrating how to machine stitch the whole binding. I used her method of joining the two ends together and it worked beautifully. I'd always struggled with that part of the binding so this will be used again. We sewed to the back by hand.

Here's the link again. It was new to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wprg5vzkuGw

Came out great!!

Thanks for posting the tutoral again. I missed it the first time. She had some good tips.

All i can say is wow! i love the way the quilting was done that definatly compliments the rest of the work put into that.

That is so awesome! I am going to learn a lot from you gals (& guys?)

Wonderful! I loved the background when you showed it but with the guitar, it ROCKS!

That is just too cool!! It's be great for someone who also likes Rock Band or Guitar Hero...

That finished up great. Did he love it? I bet so.

Wonderful graduation gift. It will be remembered forever by everybody.

It's Wild!!! I love it!!!

I thought about doing applique on my son's quilt with a black guitar similar to this! Turned out GREAT...

ohhhhhhhhhh my!! you board members here are sooooo soooo so talented! This is amazing.

That is really cute - bet he loves it!

WOW! FABULOUS !!!