that's fantastic - Love it!!!

WOW Cathy! I absolutely love it! And the border fabric is fabulous too. What a terrific design, well done. How did you decide which ones to put where - this is something I am finding hard to decide.

I finally decided what to do with my reels, they are now in a quilt top that is nothing like I imagined! I got inspired by the creativity of all of your quilts. My original idea, to have each reel block in its own attic windows block, was definitely not working out! It still needs to be quilted.....

First i took photos of all the blocks with their labels, and have saved all the labels, except for Dawn who wrote her name on the
seam allowance, so her name is in there for eternity

Kathy

Oh, my gosh, Rosemary... a design wall... I have to start clearing some wall space! Everytime I put batting/wadding over the window hanging from clothes hangers, the blocks look like stained glass and I can never figure out what looks good that way... unless I look at them at night with a peach Bellini in one hand... hic!

I just had to get started with the reels or they'd never get done... glad to see you're working on yours too.

Can't wait to see the finished quilt for the book, Renata

I've been a good girl and have been getting on with sewing some of my reels I've even worked out how to organise myself a middling size design wall to work on

Then I will look forward to seeing it even more keenly Renata.

Actually, Rita, it is your last little quilt made from Jane and Sandy's little reels that gave me the idea... I know I just teased your curiosity mercilessly, but it is TRUE!

Thanks Jane, I am glad you are pleased with what I did. Renata, I look forward to seeing some pictures of what you are going to do.

Wot RoTT was my first exchange and yesterday I finally sat down to figure out how I'm going to put my quilt together. I think I have it (in principle), now I'm going to actually draw it out. Since I have nothing to show yet, I will just say that it is taking on a modern, rather than a traditional spin, very simple, not exactly what I had intended when I joined in the fun, but my house is anything but traditional looking so I wanted something I could really use and enjoy out in the open and that is what drove my decision.

golfjane wrote: Surely you ought to get sewing the past exchanges up before you take part in any more or are they just being used as insulation?

For some reason I'm not getting notification of updates again. Decided this morning to check in just in case I'd missed something...WOW...you ladies have sure been busy.

Rita -- that little quilt is outstanding and was very glad to see you used one of my reels in it. Haven't begun mine yet--as others have said, life sometimes gets in the way of our best laid plans. As much as I love Edyta's quilt, the strippy idea means mine may get finished instead of languishing in the box with the HSTs. Was hoping to come up with an idea to use both in the same quilt as I love the idea of having all my exchange bits in one place to enjoy all together but so far my brain has a major cramp and won't move on.

However the book/pictures get put together is fine with me--just very glad it's being done. Thoroughly enjoyed this exchange and am anxious to see what the next one will be...

Terrie I think Lynn's screen name is 'spiritsFold'. Thanks everybody for the positive comments about the little quilt. Isn't if funny, I really didn't know what to do with these last two reels and thought I would try this for the heck of it. And now the mind is full of plans again.

Love your little quilt Rita. I have started the spools pattern and done about a dozen spools but , as with a lot of other people, I might have to rethink the whole spools thing.

Beautil avatar Terri Your spools quilt is looking great!

Great avatar Rita! Your new AAQI quilt is gorgeous! It's also makimg me rethink about my spools quilt