The Other Half

I am finally back in the swing of quilting.  This morning I have managed to layer and baste the back of the other half of the commission quilt.  This was not without an oh no!  moment.  You see, I layered the backing and the batting.  Then I laid the top over it. Oh NO! the top is bigger than the backing!!!   Sigh! At least the batting is big enough. Okay, so what can I do? 
Easy enough if I were at home.  However, the reason this wasn't layered earlier is that I don't have enough floor space.  I "measured" it against each other on the bed, but obviously that was a "fail."  What did I bring with me?  Let me see, I have the top, the batting and the backing.  Oh yes, I did bring some fabric to cut the deep purple binding.  Let me see... yes there is LOTS of it.  I just grabbed my mini bolt (wrapped on a comic book board.) Whew! It will work.  So I cut a nice long piece and added it to the interior of the "I thought it was pieced already" backing. 
Here is the new and improved backing:

That really is a deep purple strip, I promise.

Someone on a previous post mentioned that this was modern.  I guess I didn't realize it as I don't follow trends so much.  I knew it was non-traditional. I just didn't classify it as modern. Ha, guess I should get out more!

So I layered it, spray basted it with my cheap hair spray basting spray and started rolling it up. 

You can see that my backing and batting are bigger than the top. Whew! Good save.

Now it is all rolled up and ready to take home to quilt on my lovely Baby Lock Espire (they now call it the "Symphony" in case you wondered.)  
I think I had a good morning. How was yours?

Back Again!!!

Today was excellent. I woke up with far less pain.  I was able to move much more freely.   My stitches have been removed and I got good news from the lab work. I am feeling great. 


So great, in fact, that I got in the groove again. Yes! I cut some fabric pieces and worked on my seriously delayed commission project. The back of the second half of the quilt is pieced.  Here is a not so great photograph of it. 

It is wider that this looks, but the rest is just the yellow fabric. I used some leftover pieces from the front of the quilt in this. It will go with this half:

to make a very colorful, non-traditional backing for this quilt:

I can hardly wait to get it finished. Of course I have no idea what I will be binding it with.  
Do you have some color suggestions for the binding?  Please feel free to speak up.  I need to be ready so I can get this baby shipped to the one who placed the commission - hopefully in time for her granddaughter's birthday.