by toogie 24 May 2019

Hello Cuties, I wanted to finish this queen quilt top before I started keeping Rylan Monday. I don't know how, but I managed to get it done, in between keeping Nora and Gus a week for mom and dad to go on vacation, Nora's piano and dance recitals and then having to keep them again for a few days, because mom had unexpected surgery. All is well and soon dad will pick them up. Maybe the week-end I can rest. Don't tell anyone-lol

Anyway, I was going to wait until I got it back, as I will send this one to a quilter. However, after reading mops post I thought I'd go ahead and tell you what I did.
I had a good day when I started out with cutting the panel and framing it to resemble a window. I also started my mortar and bricks across the top and bottom. All was good.
Then the next time I had a sewing day, I went to figure and sew my mortar and bricks on the sides, I ripped as much as I sewed. I had to figure it to come out at top and bottom corners and also match the mortar lines across the top and bottom. I thought I was doing good and all was well.
How mistaken I was!
When I got the whole right side by the panel done I laid it on the floor in the living area. I started laying out my bricks for the left side, when my hubby said, look at the right. It slowly got narrower from top corner to bottom corner! SO...o.o.o
I re-newed my friendship with the ripper. I had to un-pick, rip, take apart , yes all that and more, almost the whole right side by the panel/window.
Needless to say, I am glad to be finished with this. I said I will not make another like this, but after some time I have gotten hungry to sew and have eaten words before.-lol
Anyway, it is like the throw I made before, only a lot bigger, with the bricks on the sides and, of course, more on top and bottom.
I hung it between my curtains and it does make it look like a wall-lol-second photo is on a queen bed. The fellows like it for their camps, but I hope others like it too. I will once it's outta here-lol
So Martine, I had a lot of tiny stitching to unpick! We all have those days, if we sew very much at all.

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Comments (10)

by cfidl 29 May 2019

Toogie, it looks great! You must be pleased after ripping so much out.

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by toogie 30 May 2019

Maybe when it's quilted I will be more pleased.Thanks!

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by jenne 29 May 2019

great quilt, love the brick wall, looks so real.

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by toogie 30 May 2019

Thanks all the guys want one but I'm played out on this and get bored repeating the making....

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by mops Moderator 25 May 2019

Toogie, you made me smile!
Your quilt is amazing, and the brick 'wall' looks so real.

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by toogie 25 May 2019

At the end of it all, it's good when we both can look back and smile. I was anxious to take it to the quilter but it may have to be after my Nova Scotia/ Prince Edward Island trip or I won't have spending money!-lol

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by jrob Moderator 25 May 2019

Girl, your life exhausts me! All I have to do is work an 8 hour day. This is a fabulous quilt. It turned out perfectly as all of your work. Thank you for not making us think it's easy. lol

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by toogie 25 May 2019

lol-the first one was and din't have a pattern for either. You'd think the second one would have been easier but those sides gave me the devil. The mortar across sides had to be 1/4 in wider, than the top and bottom, going across. The mortar by the frame had to be wider so it would run even with the top and so I wouldn't have a sliver of brick fabric next to frame. It nearly drove me batty!-lol

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by 02kar Moderator 25 May 2019

Wow! What a week. I'm surprised you are even on your feet at this point. The quilt is amazing and I'm so glad you managed to get it done. I'm saying a prayer that you and Rylan will have a wonderful safe day on Monday and you will both settle into a good routine that keeps him happy and doesn't overtire you.

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by toogie 25 May 2019

Thanks Karen, I think the stress of keeping him will be more exhausting than the physical play....maybe I'll sleep through the nights

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by dragonflyer 25 May 2019

Nice job, Toogie...I must say though, I don't understand your extremely large name right in the middle of the photo....it makes it difficult to see your lovely work. I understand putting your name on a photo to "protect" it, but usually they are done as a watermark as not to distract from the piece...

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by toogie 25 May 2019

I have seen some of our stuff on other sites and pintrest so that is why I did it, so others couldn't claim it.
Thanks!

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by dee 25 May 2019

Great job. It looks really nice. I haven't made a quilt for 2 years. Maybe seeing yours will make me do another one. I have a lady quilt mine.....

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by toogie 25 May 2019

Oh I fell in love with piecing the tops, not so much the cutting out-lol- You should make one Dee, we're not getting any younger!-lol

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by marianb 25 May 2019

A brilliant looking quilt. I the bricks a printed fabric or did you make each block.. try to get a little rest before Rylan arrives.

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by toogie 25 May 2019

The 'bricks' are fabric I cut out and pieced, with the light color 'mortar' in between. I was cutting it close, as I was running out of these colors. I had to go buy the buckskin color, because I did run out of one of the darker browns and couldn't find anymore like it.

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by shirley124 24 May 2019

Wow! What a lot of work. Well done. Too bad you had to do a lot of unpicking though. Hugs

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by toogie 25 May 2019

Work was not as mind boggling, as figuring what size to cut it all out. Ripping was just aggravating, because I was running out of fabric,too.

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by asterixsew Moderator 24 May 2019

Toogie this looks great. Reading the making and your life sounds exhausting sooo enjoy the rest when it happens and good luck keeping Rylan quiet

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by toogie 24 May 2019

Thanks, sometimes by nightfall my behind is draggin',so to speak, because I am exhausted. Just driving 20 miles one way to rehearsal and then a repeat the next night, for recital, plus the wait was more exhausting than staying home and doing with them. I thought I would try to rest the weekend, but my floors need a good mopping, so that will be my day (hopefully) tomorrow.

by shirley124 24 May 2019

I do hope you can fit in a little rest. in between mopping the floors. Hugs

by toogie 25 May 2019

I started vacuuming all the house as soon as SIL picked up the kids about 8:30 pm. Before I finished, my hubby (dear as he is) (SOMETIMES-lol) started mopping the bedrooms. We finished about midnight as my whole house is flooring, no carpet. By the time I bathed and washed & dried my hair, I fell into bed and slept until 9 O'CLOCK this morning! Never sleep like that!

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