Pips Quilt Top Finish!

I've been calling this quilt Pips in a Basket, but today it was more like Pips in the Breeze. 

What to do when a quilt won't hold still for the camera?  Take action shots, of course.  Seventeen of them, to be exact (don't worry, I'm only posting a couple).  

I finished this quilt top on Wednesday and kept the momentum going by getting a scrappy binding made for it right away.  

I had set aside the Sherbet Pips jelly roll strips that had a mostly gray background, since they wouldn't have worked as well in the top itself.

The inner border of the top is Kona Snow.  The outer border is more Quilter's Candy in Ash from Connecting Threads.

The backing I have in mind for it is a Legacy Studios print from Joann that was on Red Tag clearance a few months ago.  It was such a deal, I bought many yards of it, which turned out to be a good thing.  I just love those bluebirds!

I have Sarah to thank for the giveaway of the cute Sherbet Pips jelly roll in the H2H Quilt Challenge.  The pattern, as I've mentioned before, is Cluck Cluck Sew's Basket Case.  It was very well written and went together slick as a whistle, though I did change the direction some of the seams were pressed so they would nest together.  I also employed the flat side of my seam ripper to guide matched seams under the presser foot without shifting after I'd taken the pin out.  That helped keep the seams lined up nicely when joining blocks together.

So there you have it ~ a fluttery flimsy for Friday!