Sunday, March 21, 2010

One top nearly done

Quite a while back, I won a fantabulous giveaway from Meredith. I won a Glace layer cake and some groovy yardage, again, yummy glace! I looked at it for a good while, petted it, stroked it and fell in love with it. I finally decided it wasn't going anywhere...except my bed. Meet my new Christmas quilt, just for me! I haven't measured it, but it just fits on my queen mattress top, as is.

If you use a layer cake for the disappearing 9 patch, you need to add 12 extra squares for a bigger top. Mine is 2 squares wide and 3 squares down. I had to fold them in half to cut them, lol, big suckers! Then my friends, the Quilter Sisters, recommended I put a "stop" point on before the border. Great idea! Thanks Sisters!  I had another top in mind for quite a while. It didn't turn out at all what I had hoped for. Fine, it's really ugly! I'm going to have to think about it before I can post a pic of it....like I said, it's really ugly!!                               

7 comments:

  1. That's fabulous, no wonder it's staying with you, gorgeous. Now, how ugly is ugly? And who says it's ugly anyway, bet it's not???
    Hope the fluffy white stuffs gone....???
    Lizzie
    XXX

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  2. This is so beautiful, I can see why you're keeping it! And yes I'd love to see the ugly quilt, I bet it's not as ugly as you think!

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  3. I love this! Definitely a keeper!

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  4. That is not ugly .... I love it !!

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  5. Thanks Joanne, this isn't the ugly quilt. The one I had mentioned is on the latest blog, the one I did today. It has big green strips in it.

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  6. Thank you to Sophie, kind words! Allie and Lizzie: you ladies always make me smile, thank you so much.

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  7. Elaine, What is a disappearing-9-patch ... where can I find the pattern

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