- 39 tops 29 April 2012 (added Batik framed 4-patch. Completed pink & brown pinwheel.)
- 39 tops 22 April 2012 (added Modern Clover, blue and brown scrappy, and scrappy HST top. Completed disappearing nine-patch and stretched stars)
- 38 tops 2 April 2012 (added pink & brown pinwheels, brown and purple funky four patch; hand-dye funky log cabins)
- 35 tops 31 December 2011 (finished Jacob's Ladder Batik Quilt; added Xmas Oh My Stars BOM quilt, blue rectangles quilt, little Hawaiian top; gaveaway Log cabin Christmas Trees; blue, brown and taupe put aside to make chicken doorstops)
- 35 tops 5 November 2011 (added Blue and Brown Cat Quilt & 2 Rainbow String Hearts babyquilts; finished Funky baby quilt, Buckeye Beauty baby quilt, Tic-tac-toe baby quilt and Autumn Splendour quilt; donated blue string baby quilt, Boxed-in Batik, Quilt with Pink Star Centre)
- 39 tops 21 July 2011 (added Warm/Cool Wonky Log Cabin, finished Flying Geese baby quilt & Around the World Quilt Bee top)
- 40 tops 3 June 2011 (added Peaches & Green Quilt, Layer Cake and Red & White)
- 37 tops May 2011 (added Funky Houses baby quilt)
- 36 tops 27 April 2011 (added Splash of Lime, Tic-tac-toe baby quilt)
- 34 tops 14 April 2011 (added Stained Glass Quilt)
- 33 tops 13 March 2011 (added Robin's Egg Quilt)
- 32 tops 28 Feb 2011 (donated ColourShott Knot, batik string baby quilt, hand dye WOW top)
- 35 tops February 2011 (donated Retro Bento Box, blue snowball baby quilt and antique neutral top; added Boxed in Batik baby quilt top)
- 37 tops January 2011 (added blue snowball baby quilt top, finished Oriental fan quilt)
- 37 tops December 2010 (finished homespun tree skirt)
- 38 tops November 2010 (finished Bali Hai batik quilt)
- 39 tops July 2010 (added Around the World Quilting Bee top)
- 38 tops May 2010 (finished small arty wall quilt and Alex's stash quilt)
- 40 tops April 2010 (finished shoe quilt)
- 41 tops to start, April 2010
Basket mini quilt: 22" square. (nb: backing pieced). I won the basket blocks from the block lotto in May 2007 and have used a number of them as mini quilts for various occasions - a couple of quilt angel situations, a blog giveaway and so on. This one I intend to keep for myself, so I used for the setting fabrics a fish fabric which I love and don't have much more of. This is the smallest UFO I have and as such, shouldn't really be that hard to finish. But it's just one of those things.
Amish style wall-hanging or table runner. 15x46". These three blocks came from the Birthday Block Swap, which ran from 2007-8. I had asked for Amish style blocks - solid or tonal or batik fabrics with a black or BOB background. I got tons of blocks in different sizes (I put no size restrictions on the blocks), so then of course they sat around for ages waiting for me to work out what to do with them. These three, I decided to use together as they all use very muted solids (except the turquoise) for the colours and next to some of the brighter fabrics in other blocks, they appear quite dull, whereas on their own, they really work. One was a 12.5" block unfinished (the middle) and the other two were 10.25 and 10.75", so the answer was to put borders around all of them, to bring them up to 15" square. One of the smaller ones actually had a black border around it, but I took it off and put a larger one on. The top and bottom blocks, which are the same block, came from two different people - no doubt why the sizes don't match. This is one of the challenges of swaps, of course. 2 Nov 09.
Little Rail Fence Quilt. 28x32. I made this ages ago, and it used to be quilted and hanging on a wall, but the quilting was really bad and it annoyed me when I got to be a better quilter, so as it was tiny, I took it all out and keep meaning to re-do it. (original top pre-dates quilt blog)
Robin's Egg Quilt - approx 24x28" - March 2011. Intended for girls' room. From a set of charm squares.
Little Hawaiian Shirt Quilt. 28x28". Top finished August 2011. Made as part of 2011 Scrapbusting project. Hawaiian fabrics from my collection of my dad's Hawaiian shirts.
Brown and Purple Funky 4 patch. 33x33". Made as part of the ongoing scrap reduction strategem. 2012.
Brown and Purple Funky 4 patch. 33x33". Made as part of the ongoing scrap reduction strategem. 2012.
Funky Houses baby quilt. 35x35". May 2011. Block inspired by Block Lotto, 2010.
Christmas table topper. 36" square. These blocks are a few from a swap of Christmas blocks of this design which I did with Scrap Quilting Forum - most of the blocks I got were red & green and I decided a while ago I didn't want them, but I kept the blue ones to make a table topper. Don't really know which Christmas the swap was originally intended for (ok, I checked, the swap was in summer 2006 and the top was assembled in June 2008) but it's been far too long and I should really get it sorted.
Blue rectangles, 36x36". Top finished November 2011. Made as part of the 2011 Scrapbusting project.
Hand-dye log cabin quilt. 36x48". These blocks were swapped a long time ago with my dyeing group -not sure when precisely. Finally got around to putting them together into a top. I do have relatively few sets of blocks lying around these days, but there are still a few which need attention. It's on the List!
Abstract Art Quilt. 38x38". Another more recent one - I bought the fabric for this at the end of December and made a top with on New Year's Eve. 2009!
Birthday Block Swap Top with tiny centre. 39x39" + blue border and outside border, which I can't remember the size of. Maybe approc 48" square? These five blocks (including the tiny centre one) were from the first Birthday Block Swap that I hosted. The four 12" blocks all had backgrounds which weren't quite as black as some of the others - they are all BOB prints, but just aren't quite as dark black and therefore, looked better together, rather than with most of the other 12" blocks, which I have used together. This piece also uses the one little tiny block which I received (kind of a joke, that one, but hey, I wanted to use it!). Blocks from Summer 2008. Top assembled Nov 2009.
Rainbow String Hearts Quilt. Approx 40x40". Top completed in October 2011. Blocks made throughout 2011 as part of scrapbusting project.
Rainbow String Hearts Quilt 2. Approx 40x40". Top completed in October 2011. Blocks made throughout 2011 as part of scrapbusting project.
Dear Jane Wallhanging. 42x42". This is another fairly recent one - although my friend Cathi and I started swapping these 6" DJ blocks a while back (August 2007), we only finished fairly recently, so there's no guilt about the blocks hanging around for any length of time. Yet!
Bright and Black Baby Quilt. 37x50. This is another quilt assembled from the blocks from the birthday block swap (summer 2008). Not sure what it will be used for, which is part of why it's not finished, though I put these twelve blocks together in October/November 09. If I give it to someone for a baby quilt or play quilt, I won't do anything to it but quilt it; if I decide to use it for another purpose, I might add a black border.
Scrappy string quilt. 46x46. These string blocks were from several sources - both a swap and my own stash. I had loads of them, and some of them I made into a quilt for Cathi, and some I sent to LisaJo. I don't know when the swap was that I took part in, but the top was finished in March 2009. Of course, the quilt I made for Cathi was back in August 2006, so some of the blocks have been around for a while!
Courthouse Steps Variation, 49x49. This one I can date precisely - I bought the fabrics in San Diego in November 2007, and used them quite soon after that. They were a birthday present, as it happens. And I started putting them together just after my birthday, in late November.
Batik quilt. 44x56". These blocks originally came from yet another block swap - we swapped 3x18" blocks and a number (can't remember how many) of 9" blocks - some of which I know I gave away for whatever reason. Anyway, these blocks were put into a top in November 09, but I'm sure the blocks had been hanging around for several years before that.
Hawaiian Shirt Quilt. 48x60. 2007. This is one of the quilt tops I made from my dad's Hawaiian shirts after he died. I made 4 tops, three of which have been quilted and sent to my stepmom, her mother (who was good friends with my dad and lived more or less with them for the last few years of Dad's life) and my brother and his wife. After I finished those three - the last of which was finished in the autumn of 2008 - I was a little tired of Hawaiian shirt quilts, so didn't want to quilt mine straight away. And that's where it's been since then. Maybe soon. My dad's birthday was the 6th of June, maybe I'll try to do something with it around that time.
Cool and Warm Wonky Log Cabins - June 2011. Only going to count this as one, as I intend to make a double sided piece from them!
HST sampler top. 57x57". Top completed in October 2009. I blogged at length about this when I completed it, so if you want to know the back story, it's over here.
Stained Glass Top. 58x58". Top completed in April 2011 - originally started as a combination of Scrapbusting 2011 and an enders and leaders project.
Blue and Brown Quilt with Cats. 56x66". Top completed August 2011.
Xmas fabric Oh My Stars Block of the Month quilt. 54x66. Top completed December 2011.
Splash of Lime quilt top. 60x66". April 2011 - from a pile of blue and white batik squares I'd been given ages and ages ago.
Green Scrappy Quilt. 48x58" From the pattern Peaches & Creams by Judy Laquidaria - great pattern. Blocks made in March 2011 as part of my scrapbusting project; top assembled May 2011.
Layer Cake Quilt. Blocks made in July 2008, top assembled June 2011.
Framed Hand-dyed squares. 56x62. November 2009. These blocks are from a swap with my dyeing group in 2005. I know this because each swapper signed and dated one of the blocks (I can't remember how many we sent in total) - not sure if that's a handy reminder or a terrible nag, at this stage...
Oriental Lantern Quilt. 58x64". Yet another set of swap quilt blocks - the original swap was in the spring of 2007, the top was finally put together in November 2009.
Red, Blue & Green quilt. 56x70". This one I made a long time ago - probably right after I started quilting again (I did some in university, then nothing until I moved where I live now and found a neighbour who quilted). So although I don't know the date, I'd place it around the year 2000. I guess that's not "a long time ago" by some people's definitions, but it's a long time to have a quilt top sitting around. Maybe 2001, who knows. Just looked it up in another place, and apparently, it's only the centre which is that old - the borders went on in 2006. Which is still pathetic, but at least not quite as pathetic.
"Flying Pigs". 82" square. Oct 2005-Oct 2006. A Nesting Round Robin (where you add a different border or row each month, depending on instructions, only you keep the piece yourself rather than send it around to others to work on). This one was on the Scrap Quilting Forum on Delphi. Each month a different one of the players gave an instruction as to the type or style of border. I made my quilt entirely in hand-dyed fabrics - most of them mine, a few from swaps with others. On the right is the whole quilt - or as much of it as I am able to show indoors on my bed - the twisted ribbon border is the outer border. On the left is a little more detail of the central part. If you want to see the whole thing from centre to complete top, I have an set of photos in my flickr album. Once again, this originally wasn't quilted because I didn't feel my quilting skills lived up to it. And I didn't know what I want to do with it. I'm confident about my quilting skills now, but still have idea how to quilt it.
Scottie Dogs. 62x88". These blocks (the Scotties) were the first set of blocks I won from playing the Block Lotto- I won them in June 2006. I made the other blocks to go along with them to make a bed-sized quilt. Neither of these views is a particularly good one, but there you go. The top was finished in Feb 2009.
Red & White Quilt. 86x74". Blocks came from winning the Block Lotto in March 2011 (which means I got them in the post during April 2011); top was assembled in late May 2011 - I think that might be a record for me! However, it will have to be longarmed - it's way too big for me to handle on my DSM without doing my back in - so while I will try to get it done in 2011, it won't be for a while yet, as I am not made of money.
