It's absolutely beautiful

Rita, I don't know how you are doing those blocks so quickly! I do two of them and I'm ready for a break. I'm chain piecing and using the blocks as leaders and enders for each other, but it's still slow. I have a LOT of places that don't match. I agree with you that those will be hard to see in the finished quilt, though. It is a VERY busy quilt!

Your grandson must have been delighted with his cool unique pillowcase Carol. And your Celtic Solstice is looking beautiful too. I love the way the blue circles happen all by themselves and the centre looks like jewels. You must be really pleased with it. Like you I am finding one of the blocks easier to assemble than the other. But I am not fretting too much about joining up every point. There is so much colour and detail in this quilt that really the Quilt Police would have to spend a long time examining it to find all my mistakes. I have only 7 blocks left to assemble. I can't believe how quickly I have put them together. And I have had long breaks in between where I have even watched a couple of movies on TV.

Beautiful, Carole!

Rita, you've really been working on your Celtic Solstice! I've only gotten 17 of the blocks made, although I took time out to make a special pillowcase for the pillow my grandson got for Christmas. It matches the design on the gold and black case of his new 3-D DS XL game. I had to invent the pattern, although once I got the design sewn, I followed some instructions I found online to put it together. (It was a little bit like quilting, don't you think? )





And finally, here are the first few blocks I put together for the Celtic Solstice. Some are going together better than others. These, of course, have not been sewn to each other.

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i thought I was finished with all the clues for Celtic Solstice. I was behind on clue #2 and yes, Rita, I sewed some of those chevrons together wrong. I kept making the same mistake more than once. That is with more than one group of them. I was doing them in batches of 10. As I went back looking at the tutorial I think some of the angles are shown incorrectly and I kept getting confused. Am I right about that, or is there something really wrong with my brain. I still have to make at least 10 more of them. Not my favorite clue. But I love the quilt and I am so glad I did it. Can't wait to sew it all together. Perhaps this is what I get for being distracted from getting some of my Mug Rugs done.

I hear you, Rita. I was amazed that I actually managed to follow along with last year's bom, as the year before I lost interest after about 6 months. Mind you that is what was so nice about the Laura Nownes Sampler quilt class, it was short and sweet. I guess Alex's Holiday Lights quilt also comes into that category too.

Wendy, it's in the post! (Not) But I know how you feel, in reverse of course. Thank goodness there is plenty of time still.

I really wasn't sure I would like doing a mystery quilt and I wasn't even sure that I liked the colour combination for Celtic Solstice while we were working on it and to tell you the truth I was dreading the reveal in case I thought it was hideous. So I was absolutely thrilled when I saw the revealed quilt. I so enjoyed 'working blind' from week to week not knowing what was coming or how long it would take - except for a broad 6-8 weeks timeline. It's a perfect amount of time too. I wish TQS would do a mystery quilt like that rather than one that takes almost a year to complete. It's hard to sustain interest in a quilt over such a long period of time. I have 11 blocks left to piece together and then I can start connecting the blocks. Still sashing and borders to make though so it could be a while yet.

I really love Celtic Solstice ...even that sm. is too big these days...so will make it even smaller !!
Sorting fabric now. !

Yes go on Rita put it in the post that'll do fine

The Celtic Solstice is gorgeous but huge! Will be interesting to see your versions peoples.

Nancy - Now that is just downright antisocial of your niece's uni. to put their graduation on the same weekend as our quilt show - can't you ask them to change it or something?

Wendy, perhaps you ought to borrow the spare from Rita , cos her's turned out a bit big originally and she had to take off her binding to reduce it...

Loved the reveal of Celtic Solstice, that has definitely gone onto my list of quilts I want to make - hey if I actually get organised it would be great for leaders & enders too..... a girl can dream any way

You can breathe again Lorna I'm taking the binding off and redoing it to make my quilt big enough.

Nancy we will keep you updated and take lots of pictures. Perhaps the hotel will have wifi and we can Skype you It is getting exciting now it's near the end and we can see the quilt's journey.

So exciting that you are so close, Wendy!

Looks like I won't be making it to the show to see the quilts. My niece's graduation is scheduled for the same weekend, so I'll be in Kansas instead. But I will also be thinking of all of you and hope that you will send me pictures of the exhibit! I'm so excited to see what everyone made and the progression from the beginning photo to Lorna's yet-to-be-conceived masterpiece!

Nancy

Oops, and there is Wendy's post!

I'm ready! Bring it on!

Lorna