Celtic Solstice completed top ready for quilting!

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Final green border on the quilt. Looks great! I would not change a thing,

Laying it out so I can put batting and backing on it.

Whiskers is inspecting the whole process.

Quite an undertaking. It is a very heavy quilt but so worth the effort!

Begin again?? Green Bay Packer Solstice

It is true the bug has gotten me. Not the flu bug but the Bonnie bug. Yes I spent the afternoon cutting the first part of this quilt. Spent some time planning this one with the colors. Now it will be fun to take my time and do things a bit different.

I got the Celtic Solstice mug for hot chocolate or tea to keep me warm on these frigid days! Maybe with an additive of amaretto or brandy. It will be used for the days when I hand quilt my king size Celtic Solstice during the Olympics.

Here are some beginning pictures now that I can blog away my progress.

Final pieces of Celtic Solstice climbing together.

Rows and rows to out together. Pinned a lot of the blocks in rows while returning Cherith back to college. This past weekend dowsing the rows together making sure they were going the right way. Such a process. Then the triangle  blocks sewing them together and then on to the quilt. It was fun seeing the light off white/gold sparkles border first tying the whole quilt together. Then adding the triangles. Now decided on a green final border. I accidentally picked up more blue material but it does not look right. So will pick some up this evening. It is a huge quilt, overlays the bed. But I love it.

Celtic Solstice progress

Spent the day yesterday sewing the blocks for rows together. Completed rows 4-11. Got more brave sewing groups of 4 then 8 and to last row larger numbers itching to get things done. Laid them all out last evening and I was 3 blocks short. Some of those mistake blocks needed a few adjustments and then all complete. I have the rows figured out and will spend the time in the car taking daughter back to college to pin them together and begin sewing the rows. Maybe entire top to be done by next Sunday. I ordered by Celtic Solstice long sleeved shirt and mug to celebrate. I also will order my wool batting this week. Would like to start quilting this during the Olympics. Will post pictures latter today. I just love the design and effect of this quilt. I have doubled and tripled check my block placements. Very challenging quilt!

Weekend sewing

Just finished 16 blocks for Celtic Solstice. Will complete some more tomorrow and then sew into rows. Steady progress. Wonderful colors on web site. Will post pictures tomorrow.

Celtic Solstice row 2 complete

Today finished row 2 and attached to row 1. Will continue to sew enough blocks for a row and then join. I may decided to do two rows and the attach them in 2's. I guess the king has eleven rows. So happy with current progress.

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From small blocks to large blocks to row.

Began putting the small blocks into larger blocks for quilt. I have a sample of both main blocks. This is a good visualization and well as a double check. It seems you get caught up pining and marking sewing pints that things easily get mixed up and leads to sewing it wrong. I found that pining the rows across to make the large block is the easiest. Able to finish 14 blocks and enough to sew the first row. Once you get into a rhythm it goes a bit faster. However one mistake at the end, makes one realize sewing fatigue has set in. Time to use the message chair for the sore back as well as a break for the day. It sure is a pretty quilt. The points don't always match perfectly, but one will never know it due to the scrappy feel of the quilt.

Celtic Solstice New Year reveal!!!!

Bonnie shared the great reveal. Had to finish up 144 clue 5 before assembling the blocks. But had to lay them out to see my colors. Love them! So finished sewing clue 5 but need to press and trim. The. I can continue this weekend. Back to work tomorrow.