Teachers Touch Hearts

Well, this is that quilt that, as one commenter put it, I was "volun-told" to do :)  It is a gift for a retiring school teacher, one of my mom's co-workers.  See, I agreed to bind a quilt.  Turns out that certain non-quilters may not actually know what binding means and may in fact assume it's the same as make a quilt.

This quilt contains the hand prints of (59) 5th graders.  The 60th block got a quote and thank-you message. 

(ETA: several people have asked what the paint used was. I didn't buy it, but was told it came from WalMart and is called "shiny acrylic".  I heat set it thoroughly with a hot iron.)

I quilted the quilt with a wide stipple, avoiding running over the paint hand prints.  (I'm not including too many closeups because blurring out 59 names was not how I wanted to spend my evening.)

Although I wasn't initially excited about doing this quilt, I am proud of how it came out and happy that it's going to a worthy cause.  I was surprised by how soft the paint hand prints are after a good wash and impressed that none of them ran or bled.

The backing is a pretty blue paisley and the binding is striped.  The quilt finished at 60"x72", a generous couch size.  So, at the end of the day, a pretty quilt goes to a good home and everyone's happy. 

Linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts Finish it Friday.