A Finish: Connecting 4

Sigh. I missed the Finish Along link up again because I've been busy at work (this is a good thing but it means I've been going to bed earlier), have been teaching and trying to get on top of housework and stuff at home. I also decided today after an incident on Friday where I couldn't fasten my jacket up, that I need to pay closer attention to my diet, so my Fitbit is back on and I'm actually using the calorie tracker on it. I didn't know eating too much was so easy. Today I had a Tim's breakfast which was a bad start, because even after a long dog walk, my lunch- which was a salad- put me in the position of eating more calories than I burned. I blame the 300cal avocado. So with a snack of 13 crisps (yes I counted) plus beef stew for tea with no side bread or rice or dumplings or anything, and no 160cal ice tea today, I'm over my RDA. No more sausage and cheese for breakfast for me!Anyway I finished a quilt over a week ago but there's a very long story about trying to get the thing posted for under $140 which I won't go into. I managed it by the way, so it's gone over to the UK to hopefully arrive in time to be in July's Popular Patchwork. This is Connecting 4...The name is because the block that makes this quilt has four rows of four squares, with four strip pieced corners, which when sewn together makes four rows of four secondary pattern squares.The quilting and binding took a couple of hours at most, I stippled it to get it done and machined that binding on for quickness. Here's some pictures of Hank because I can and I will. I will have another finish soon too, I'm unstoppable!STATSSize – 56 1/2″ squareNumber of blocks – 25Time to make – About 10 hours total - chain piecing FTWFabric – Half of a Tucker Prairie jelly roll plus some other prints from my stash and Kona WhiteBacking Fabric – 3m (which was juuuuust enough) of a Garthwaite print by Victoria and Albert that was on sale at My Sewing Room.Binding Fabric – A petrol blue crosshatch print, which was also the accent print. I got it at Birmingham NEC Festival of Quilts a couple of years ago.Threads – Piecing with white Wonderfil Konfetti on a cone. Quilting with Isacord in a light blue shadeBatting – 80/20 Hobbs Heirloom.Quilting- Large stipples, very simple!