Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Hoorah!


My Nearly Insane Quilt top is finished and ready to take to the Machine Quilter. I am so relieved to have finished it, and have made given myself a deadline to finish as many UFO’s or WIP’s whatever you call them in the year of 2015. This measures about 96” square.  

The quilt is so large I couldn’t get a photo at home, so got a friend to take a photo at Quilt meeting last week.

It took me almost 5 years to make, from the date I made the 1st block to when I stitched the last border on, with lots of down time in between!


 
I have another quilt basted for an Australian Grand-daughter ready to do some of my hopefully reasonable machine quilting on. I am a real beginner at this, but they say practise makes perfect! This quilt measures 80”.

I am in the process of making more blocks for a blue, cream and brown/tan quilt that I started in 2011. I needed to make 144 x 8” blocks for this quilt as I wanted it for our main bed. I like the quilts to finish about 96” square. I still have about 40 blocks to make, and am joining them into blocks 4 x 4 which seems to make them easier to cope with.
Thanks for dropping by
Sue

http://www.susannasquilts.blogspot.com

12 comments:

Leeanne said...

Wow! Sue that quilt is lovely! Clever you and a real achievement..........looks like you are on the ball finishing stuff, is that so you can start new projects!

susis quilts said...

congratulations to a beautiful finish,have a nice day ,susi

Sew Quilt Designs said...

Seen in the flesh and it's amazing with all those tiny pieces :)

Frances Leate said...

Fabulous Sue and what an achievement to knock another UFO off the list. Take care.

Karen in Breezy Point said...

Congratulations on your beautiful finish!

Pip said...

Well done Sue, always good to finish off a quilt especially one as complex as the Nearly Insane, it looks beautiful.

Aunt 'Reen said...

Congratulations on such an amazing accomplishment!
Your quilt top is gorgeous!

Julie said...

Wow this is rather gorgeous. You have a lot of patience for the small details in those blocks.

Tazzie said...

Oh my goodness Sue, your NI is just beautiful, what a fabulous finish!
Hugs
Tazzie
xox

Gretchen Weaver said...

Your Insane is beautiful. A friend and I are starting this quilt in January. She said it is going to take us 2 years. We'll see.

Karen H said...

Congratulations on making such a spectacular quilt! I look forward to seeing it quilted and bound. This will be a quilt that I am sure will be treasured by your granddaughter!

Lara B. said...

Now that quilt is a challenge beautifully met! What a masterpiece Sue! It must be pretty thrilling to have it done and I can't wait to see how your quilter does the quilting.