I finished another UFO. It is a Christmas quilt – 44″ square – perfect as a wall hanging or table topper.

This quilt was started for Christmas three years ago. The nine patches were made from scraps of Christmas fabircs that were in my stash – left overs from previous Christmas quilts that I have made.

I started quilting it in the ditch with my domestic sewing machine and added the circles on my long arm.

I have taken close ups so that you can see the buttons that have been added to the centre of the circles. The quilt perimeter is finished off with a “flap” of white rick rack.

My Mother has been watching my blog for prospective quilts for her bed. She spied the Green Crumb Block Quilt on-line and when she was over for coffee Friday night she wanted to have a look at it. She says she will only borrow it. However, when we tried it out on my queen size bed, she declared it too narrow for her needs. As a result, I will be making another row of 9 blocks making the total blocks in this quilt, 63. With the borders I plan to put on the quilt, it should finish 96″ x 116″. What are the odds that she is only thinking of “borrowing” this quilt?

This is a picture of a log cabin quilt that I made my parents for Christmas a few years ago. It finished 94″ wide which makes a nice drop down the side of the mattress.

My Mother wants “her” Crumb Block quilt to finish at least the size of this quilt!

All 54 blocks have been set together now with sashing and cornerstones. There were too many blocks to consider a setting on point with plain alternating blocks. All I need to do is add borders and then quilt.

I am thinking about quilting this with some curved or circular lines. All the straight edges are calling out to be softened.

This is definitely a fast, no stress (no matching required) block that reduces your scrap pile in a hurry!

We were told at our guild meeting one night that a quilt top is called a “flimsy” once the piecing is complete and before it is quilted.

This piece was made entirely from my stash and was started just two weeks ago. This has to be a record for the completion of a quilt top for me. Perhaps it has to do with the size–just 35 1/2″ square.

I will quilt it on the long arm as soon as I figure out what to quilt in the large white spaces.

This is another of the crumb blocks that I have been making. I have now made a total of 54 blocks using this technique.

I am trying to decide where to go next. What setting should I choose? Just merely join the crumb blocks together in a crazy quilt formation? Alternate crumb blocks with plain blocks? Surround the crumb blocks with sashing and cornerstones?