It's finished!
This was intended as a lap quilt for my MIL but sadly she died just as I was getting it finished. The strawberry feature fabric was chosen with her in mind as her family were soft fruit growers in Perthshire and she and FIL had a market garden in Bedfordshire where they grew strawberries. It has become my 'back of the sofa' quilt.
The backing fabric is a bit at odds but it is blue, red, and white. I was going to do a bi-coloured border as I didn't think the backing fabric and strawberry fabric went together but after resolving the trials and tribulations I had with the flippin' great white information strip on the backing fabric I really couldn't be bothered fiddling with that. It was always intended to have a narrow, green border - about an inch wide but to solve the backing problem it has ended up at just 1/4". Now, before anyone reminds me, I know I had resolved to do some FMQ on the border but as there wasn't room for so much as a gnat I'm sure you'll understand why I haven't.
I did diagonal quilting again. I like diagonal quilting, I don't seen to get any puckers when lines cross (or perhaps I'm just getting a bit better at making up the sandwich. I started by quilting through the strawberry cross and the red diamond. I echoed the diamond in towards the centre of the quilt then echoed the outside triangles with a closer spacing. I was able to eyeball the line from corner to corner so didn't need to mark the quilt top apart from a very few chalk marks where there wasn't a corner to aim for.
I haven't felt a great love for this one along the way, probably because it wouldn't have necessarily been my choice of fabrics for myself, but once it was sandwiched and I started quilting it grew on me and I'm quite happy to have it adorning the sofa (which happens to be navy).