OMG!! It's done! My goal for November.

I've been working on this quilt for absolutely forever, and it's no wonder, you got to see it...

This is what it looked like at the end of October.

I still needed to put the side sections on, and finish quilting the top more.  And now it's done!!!

Here's a look!

On a queen size bed

Look at the quilting on each block.  Circular.

Harry Potter is PERFECT on the pillows.

The other side is just at long.  It hangs over the skirt of my bed.  I had to do quilt as you go with this one, and that took forever!!!!
But so worth it.  Take a look at it hanging from my loft, so big I couldn't get a picture of the entire thing.

 The quilting really comes out when you see it hanging (sorry, my husband took the pictures).  I used purple for around it and then black for the binding.  In between each block is 2 1/2 inches in between.  The colors are Kona solids, and for the purple I had to buy the entire bolt.  I used it all.  I ran out of the gold (same gold I used for the words - Harry Potter) so on the sides it's purple both on the front and the back.  . 

The hardest blocks....  the castle.....

And the owl which thank goodness the instructions were great, so it was easy to do but you had to take your time....  and read the instructions twice.

The easiest were the faces at the start, which was a great thing considering you were just starting...

 

My favorite......

Making a pillow for a friend of this one.  Loved the green in the eyes.  Wish I did the white in the eyes for all of them.  Also, it was not the simplest the one above, but not hard, and the instructions were really great.  

So I'm linking up to SewFresh Quilting for their final link up.  Mine is sewn, quilted, and FINISHED!!!!!

So happy!!  

Also linking up to OMG at Emm Street Quilting.  This has been my monthly goal for the last two months.  But I"M FINISHED!!!  Can you tell I'm excited????  And I'm done before the 15th, my due date I set for myself - right in the middle of mid term report cards, and so much more.....

On to the next.....

UFO for November....

Well I almost made it.....  I almost got my Harry Potter quilt done.  I did add the final two rows, completed the castle (the last row was the hardest), attached them, and the only thing not completed, was the side wings (the side pieces to make it wider.

It's huge.  Check it out yourself.

My favorite block

The hardest block to make, the castle.

The funnest block to make but just as hard as the castle

 Loved the quilting with the waves. and the circles around the other ones.

Quilt pattern by SewFresh, a wonderful Canadian Designer, who makes fantastic patterns.  She's on Etsy.

You had a choice, you could do the moon in the middle like I did or at the start so when you put the owl to the left, it looked like the moon shared both.  I love my choice.

So I'm not done, yes I know, it's crazy, I will have to do the side pieces, quilt them and attach them.
They're the length of the quilt which is very very long, covering the the pillows and the bottom of the entire quilt.

Here's what it looks like at this very moment.

Here's what I have to do next:

Quilt side panels, add them on, and put bias all the way around it.  I want to show this to my quilting group, but the bias will take a long time.

On the up side I have a second goal, since this is smaller for the month, I want to catch up on my Disappearing Row Quilt Along by Patchwork Posse.

I have two of the eight done, as you can see.  That means 6 to complete and usually that means 5 or 6 blocks of the 6 patterns to complete, but this whole thing is completed by November and I'm thinking of giving this up for a Christmas gift.  I started this one to get my stash down of left over material, so this is what the idea was.  rows.   But it seamed to develop, grow, and now I'm looking for material for in between the rows.

The material is wonderful, can't wait to put it together, and I'm looking at doing it before the final row in the middle of November.  Want this done at the end of November so we'll see.

So I am hooking up to Elm Street Quilts to complete one more (OK two) UFOs in the OMG challenge.  THIS TIME I'm finish that darn Harry Potter.