Archive for the ‘Completed tops’ Category

First quilting, then knitting, then piecing, and finally writing up instructions for the Twisted 9 Patch.

I didn’t expect to finish this top today but I’m glad it’s done. I’m ready to move on. If you’re interested in the instructions, click on the link above which will take you to my MaryQuilts.com site.

I’ve turned my heel on the 2nd red sock so that one will definitely be finished this weekend as I’m planning on knitting while the Super Bowl is on. I don’t really care about either team but I’m sure we’ll have the game on so I’ll just sit and knit.

Now Keith and I are going to go out for breakfast and run a few errands before I come home and collapse into bed.

How’s that for a quilt name? Doesn’t all the green remind you of vegetables? Spinach maybe?

I worked on and off all night to finish this top and I think I might even like it better than the Boxed Squares.

Keith even liked it and he doesn’t like most of my quilts — they’re usually too scrappy for him.

You can find instructions for making Boxed Squares on my MaryQuilts.com site. It’s quick and easy to make from 2 and 1/2 inch strips. I used a Jelly Roll for the first one and this one is from stash.

I decided tonight I’d been messing with these blocks way too long and finally finished up the top.  Not the best photo but it’s hard to get one that’s any better at night in my hallway.

Mom and I worked on finishing a top during this visit. It was a block of the month that I’d never assembled but we need a gift quilt and this one was quick to finish up. Of course – it still needs quilting and it’s another big one (about 90 x 100) but I have plenty of time to get it done.

A couple quilts trimmed, a binding made and stitched onto the quilt, a backing pieced, and unlike my usual pace of taking 2-3 days to assemble blocks into a top, I got all the brown centered HeartStrings blocks assembled this morning.

Now I need to stop stalling and go down and load one of my aunt’s tops on the longarm.

We thought Chesty might have a urinary tract infection so I collected a urine specimen this morning to carry to the vet — not as complicated as I thought it would be using a disposable pie tin to collect and a small Tupperware container to transport. Unfortunately, in additional to a probable UTI he also has some crystals in his urine which are indicative of stones so he’ll go in tomorrow for an x-ray.

And still I managed to get some work done. The teal HeartStrings top is finished.

And this small top pieced by Cecile is quilted.

The quilting is hard to see but it’s a pantograph by Norma Sharp called Leap Frogs and you can probably see it better in this shot of the back.

Yes, the Stars and Pinwheels are finally assembled into a finished top. It’s too big for my design wall and Keith isn’t home to hold it up for me but trust me — it’s done (at least the top)!

I finished piecing my Diamond Strings — thanks to focusing on it during our HeartStrings holiday weekend sew-in but I’d hoped to get a backing pieced and another small top quilted today so I could load this one and quilt it tomorrow.

But after lunch Keith and I went to Home Depot to order tile for the kitchen backsplash and I picked up a couple more shelving units in my never ending quest to be more organized. The first one is in my longarm room which also functions as my office. I can place the bins with files, backings, tops, etc. on the shelves instead of them sitting in the various boxes they were shipped to me in. I’m going to move that top shelf down some.

Finally, I had a couple bins with finished quilts waiting for donation sitting at the bottom of the stairs – this small shelf is much neater but I’d like to talk Keith into letting me put a taller one there.

I’ve lost track of what number Chinese Coins quilt this is but the top is done and it’s ready for quilting. It’s probably the last bit of sewing I’ll get done before we leave tomorrow for South Dakota.

Chesty posing with the finished top

As requested, brief instructions are posted at my MaryQuilts.com site for this tumbler quilt. While I did cut this one with my wonderful GO cutter, it can be made using a template.
I realized as I was trying to draw the string blocks in the EQ that a stripe fabric would work in place of the string pieced blocks too.

Today’s picture is a little better and hopefully you can see how pretty the Blue Aqua fabric is — I feel like it’s my Summer vacation quilt esp. as we’re heading for Florida on Saturday and I’m anticipating lots of beach time!

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