Happy Trails quilt

 

This is a quilt that was a long time in the making.  I bought the fabric for it way back in 2014 and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.  But for whatever reason I didn't get started on it right away.  And so, like so many things, since I didn't start on it immediately it just sat there, for years.  Last year, early during lock-down, I decided to work on some projects that I already had all the fabric for, and this one fit the bill.  By the end of April I had the top pieced.  Once my local quilt shop was accepting quilt tops again I took it in to be quilted.  In December of last year I finally retrieved it, fully quilted, so it only needed binding and labeling.  

Since retrieving the quilt from the quilt shop, I've finished the binding on two other quilts.  One that was already in progress when I picked this one up, and one that I made from beginning to end in the meantime for my new grandson.  But after so much languishing and being put aside, it is finally finished.  Pieced, quilted, bound, and labeled.  Done.

I decided to name this one "Happy Trails" because the fabric on the front reminded me of bandanas, and the fabric on the back is a horseshoe print.  And what could be happier than rainbow colors?  So with a nod to Roy Rogers, and a little wink to my late Aunt Charlotte (who loved Roy Rogers), I give you a "Happy Trails" quilt.