My husband purchased this fabric bundle for my birthday a few years back. I think it took me this long to make it because I was a afraid of the tiny little diamonds in the center. They were quite the challenge.
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I started making the quilt at the beginning of summer. I took my time and completed some smaller projects in-between working on this one. Sadly, when I opened up the bundle there were some fade marks where the fabrics were folded. A definite sign of taking too long to work on this.
![Aviatrix Medallion Quilt](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCrdmTrC6mRCI88zwJRmN6nF9Fd-AfIWpfVFVOm_5MW6DY8kWxRr12NJ_INuEn2nLAisVWPM_SvLcg1rJlro6SdlUIM9D8El7ZeNdOGS-jMWuZedEuJDn47WzmHopdvgCy-8j-q-t2BO6C/s320/Aviatrix+%25288%2529.JPG)
Once I completed the quilt top, I set it aside in search of the perfect backing fabric. I found a print I liked but the color selections were many and I just couldn't choose one color. Then I went on a shop hop with a church group not looking to find anything in particular. And lo and behold, there was this nice gray fabric with text printed on it. It was perfect. I bought 5 yards.
I made the backing and loaded it on my longarmer. It's pretty big and it took me 3 days to finish quilting it. I used a variegated thread and a pantograph called Leaf Crown.
Last night I finished sewing the binding on using the same fabric as the backing. I was watching the Green Bay Packers game and happily by the time the Packers won, I had the binding done. Ha!