Well, my photo album program is finally operational again, so I'm going to try to post a few pictures of the quilt I made for my son and his bride. I had so many helpful suggestions last winter/spring that I now have a file of patterns I want to make for myself!! I was especially intrigued by the Storm at Sea pattern that Bon suggested. I started collecting fabric and books with variations on the pattern, but it just seemed too difficult for me to attempt in the time I had - so I put that idea on "hold" and settled on another pattern in one of the books. It was called "End of the Day" - I called mine "Together at the End of the Day". I quilted it freehand on my Janome 1600P/Grace Pro system in a combination of loops and spirals, mirrored so that they took the eye both vertically and horizontally. The fabric was "busy" enough to hide a lot of ooopsies!

Close-up of stitching:

The work on this quilt took me from late February until July 16th - just four days before the wedding! I think I posted elsewhere that it finished at 110" square, but that was wrong. It was one block longer than wide and finished at 98" x 110". Because I quilted each row of 3" blocks, I didn't have to turn the quilt to finish it. I had to roll it for each pass toward the end, and I did turn it to do the borders, but that wasn't a big deal.