Harry Potter Bookshelf is finished!

I looked back to see when I started this project, and it was 19 months ago. There are 40 paper pieced blocks in the quilt, and 11 were made by my awesome bee mates in the Stars in Their Eyes Bee. Thank you friends, you made it all possible!

The quilt is larger than the original Project of Doom, found here. I put an extra block in every row, and an extra row on top of the quilt. It was a lot of fun making a dragon, Mad Eye Moody's eye, and a howler among other things. It measures 62" x 78".

My idea was to have white background on both sides of the quilt, and perhaps a broom standing against it. I also wanted feet on the bookshelf. However, by this time the quilt was already pretty large for a couch throw, so I decided to stop.

Many of the books have a title on the spine. It was a stretch for my little Janome, but on the whole I like how they look.

I outline quilted everywhere and then stippled the grey background. There is still more I can quilt, perhaps there always will be and I'd better stop!

The back is from a fabric line called Enchanted Kingdom. A lighter colourway would not have shown the grey quilting threads so much. Oh yes, I quilted all the wooden bookcase parts with, wait for it, woodgrain! It's in Angela Walters Free Motion Quilting book, and seemed perfect. I used a variegated brown, and you can hardly see it.

Nope, you can't see the quilting here. Those are flying owls by the way.

A few more pics of my lovely bookcase:

In this one you can see all the blocks down to the Sorting Hat.

And in this one you can see the bottom two rows clearly:

Now it's all finished, I feel very attached to this one. I can clearly see a lot of my growth as a quilter between the first few blocks, and the last. And there are some very favourite blocks and fabrics in here.


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Till next time,

Sue