I finished this quilt top at the weekend .

Today I have put it together with batting and backing . Perhaps you will be able to see all the safety pins.

Most of the pieces were a layer cake with a kind of Japanese design.  The rest of the fabric I had in my stash ,it blended in very well .

No pattern , I just added strips and cut the layer cake and made blocks to put around the sides .

I have backed it with red so it could possibly be used a Christmas on the reverse side.

I started  hand quilting it.this afternoon . What nicer way to spend a rainy afternoon .I shall be quilting in the ditch on all the seams , nothing else . I felt I had spent a pleasant afternoon hand sewing .

I started this quilt hoping my stash would thin down a little.

I doesn't seem to have made any difference .