Going In Circles and —

I started making “Going in Circles” on December 20th – I finished the top today, this evening actually.  It took 12 days of steady work  on this top to finish appliqueing the border.  I barely worked on any other project wanting to get this top finished.

Here it is folded in quarter size as it is too big to lay out on the floor - Now it will sit aside for most of this year most likely as I finish up other quilts. This quilt is 100 x 100 inches so it will be quilted on my big hand quilting frame and right now there is another quilt on it. I am in no rush - it will wait until I am ready for it. The border is all needle turn applique although I did make the circles using the technique that I showed in early December on the blog and then appliqued in place - which was easy as the ends were already turned under.

Now that this top is finished I am ready to get busy quilting.  I have a small stack of tops waiting for me to get quilted.  Counting this one that I just finished there are 4 quilts to be quilted plus the Christmas Quilt that is on the big frame in progress.  I thought I would select the smallest top and get started on that one on my 14 inch hoop.  I will be quilting two quilts at the same time and in between working on the 2 applique quilts I have gotten started on this year – 1 block finished on each, I will also continuing working on the BOM Star Crazy and the second Dear Jane quilt which I have barely touched in the last month.  Way too many projects in the works!!!

This top is called "Devil's Puzzle" it is a small one for me, most I make are much larger than this. This one measures 38 x 38 inches and will be used for a table topper.

A close up of the backing fabric that I found in my stash. This whole quilt will be made from scraps right down to the batting - I will be basting 3 pieces of batting together tonight to use for this quilt. I will finally have to order some more batting though as I am down to small pieces and way too many pieces to baste together for the next quilts I have waiting in line which are about 50 by 70 inches I think. I would have to baste about 7 or 8 pieces together from here out so I think they will be put aside for small projects once again.

I will need to continue making scrap quilts next year as I have barely made a dent in my scraps and that is after using them in the big scrappy quilt too besides these smaller quilts that I have made this past year.  For the most part for the last year I have mainly just bought fabric for the backgrounds and backings.

Now I am off to watch more Olympics and baste that batting together.  We were really pleased with the Men’s Figure Skating last night and really I thought they all did a terrific job -   Oh and could not believe it got up to 60 degrees today!! and no I do not think spring is on its way early – I just bet we will have another cold spell with the way this winter has been.