Swell quilt is ready to quilt

Now that the Swell Jellystone quilt top is together I have it now basted, the pics below are before I smoothed and basted. I am glad it is finally together, I was getting sick of block placement in the end. There was one block that wouldn't sit right, so I made up another block from the left over partial blocks and the troublesome block was replaced.
I really don't know why, maybe I rushed the piecing too much, but the quilt top didn't sit as flat as they usually do and this one gave me a bit of grief when basting. It was the borders, something I have done with piecing of these. It is basted now and we'll see later on tonight how it quilts up.



The 'bitsa' block. Doesn't look too different.

Another problem I ran into.

My batting wasn't wide enough. The batting I had set aside to use was actuallynot bought to make this quilt, it was more like an off cut. I ummed and ahhed over this for about ten minutes then, after consulting with my quilt counsel, made the executive decision that I would carry on quilting and trim the borders back once quilted.