Took a quilt class with my hub. His quilt top still isn't finished... Well, neither is mine, but I managed to get the bargello part done. Still have to put the border on, and then sandwich the darned thing.

That was back in October. My son has claimed this one, whenever I finish it. Yay, he wants something I've made!

Hub's is still in long strips, waiting to be stitched together.

This kind of quilt isn't hard to do at all. It's just tedious, doing all the cutting. After that, it sews up pretty quickly.

GEORGIOUS!! How beautiful!

From one quilter to another - VERY NICE!!!

One question - hand or machine made?

I'm not a big quilt person, but that is quite impressive.

Thanks, peoples. It's machine stitched, of course. I don't have the patience for hand-stitching. Hard enough cutting all the strips with a rotary cutter!

I like how the wave turned out, with the black line undulating down the middle from corner to corner. It's a bit of an act of faith, working on one of these. You just don't know what you're going to get until you put it all together.

Beautiful! I love the colors. I like bargello quilts but I haven't ever tried one. I've made a few watercolor quilts and like the blending of color. Your colors blend nicely. I only make wall hanging size quilts, so I'm in awe of the work involved on yours.

Another impressed quilter here...extraordinary Elfie! Beautiful!

Funny... I don't see it as that much work. It's all straight lines. ALL OF IT. That's what made it such a great class to force my DH to take with me. Um, that is... yes. We spent more time together. He was delighted to take a quilting class with his lovely wife. And his quilt is still sitting in the strips stage, waiting to be pieced.

Try it, Pogo, and marvel at how easily it comes together. It took a while to figure out where I wanted the contrasting colours to go, but once I had the colour progression worked out, it was just a question of keeping everything in order.

Most of the fabrics are stash-busters. The blues are "normal" prints, but the black and white and grey fabrics are Hallowe'en and children's prints. The best thing about it is that the largest square is only 2.5"x3.5", and the smallest is 1" (before stitching), so it works as a kind of "I Spy" quilt, as well.

And hopefully, this is something that can grow up with my son.

My husband used a Teletubbies print in his quilt-top. It's not so weird, even when you see Po or Laa-Laa in one of the squares.

Pretty!

--J--

That is very nice! Also a quilter here. Was it done using the "strip" method, then sewn together to look diagonal?

I love my rotary cutter for quilts, makes the cutting phase go much faster. And there are hundreds of hours in a quilt, especially when you hand quilt the tops. I do the piecing by machine, but always hand quilt the rest.

I am a quilter too, and beautiful! I know this may just be me, but isn't almost every quilt a quilt in progress? I hope by now you have taken it out and started to finish it.... I know the last time I did that I finished it in 2 or 3 days- you never know!

Impressive!

Haven't worked on this one since posting that pic. I'm trying to finish my Tarot quilt (and put it in my Etsy store) before I move on this one. I helped my DH finish his quilt. The wave is the same, with more yellow in his quilt, but you can tell 3 different people worked on it, and only 1 of us had any experience with piecing! It's all twisted and uneven, can't make it lie flat without tearing it apart and redoing, so I'm going to make it into pillow cases for him for Father's Day.