Lollypop Trees All Done!

So excited.  :)

I replaced the original, windy pictures.  Thanks, Brad, for winning Survivor Kirkland and holding it up for so long to let me take pictures.

Longarm machine quilting was done by Catherine Kessel in Marysville of American Quiltworks.  Quilting details:

See all the Lollypop Trees progress.

Edited 4-26-12 - Just learned today that Faye Burgos is the designer of the black Marcus Brothers fabric I used throughout the design. Thank you to her for such a lovely fabric!

Some comments from facebook:

Jane Monk Gorgeous.

Pia Merete Hansen Beautiful lovely ... My daughter have asked me to make one for her in black also .... one day! smile emoticon Presently I make Roseville Album.... smile emoticon

Kitty Sorgen So lovely, Summer! That was a lot of work!

Kathy Santos Awesome!!

Anne Schack Hejl WOW!!!

Kathleen MacAusland Schumacher Totally fun!!!

Kylie Kenny I am doing it but have not even finished one block! Beautiful job, by the way!

Annie Huzzard Morgan Quite an accomplishment!

Kathleen MacAusland Schumacher Your blog on this quilt is beautiful, Summer... I really enjoyed seeing the blocks individually, and your process... It is a major accomplishment. Extremely rewarding when finished, but a wonderful journey along the way to completion.

Lynn Browning Douglass This is stunning! I also enjoyed looking at your blog!

Anne Andersen Thank you so much for sharing. :-))

Rhianon Taylor I love everything about this quilt!!!

Olivia Kissner Bravo!

Donna Browne Savage Lovely!!!!!

Nancy G Johnson Leighton I have the pattern, now just to get started! Yours is beautiful!

Nancy G Johnson Leighton wow!! Beautiful quilting!! Thanks for sharing! Inspires me to get going on mine

Helle Thode wow...so pretty

Volume in Scraps by Emily Cier finished...

This is based on "Volume in Scraps" from Scrap Republic by Emily Cier.  Her quilt in the book is a lot smaller, so I made 25 columns of 4.5" strips.  They are 104" long and it is just over 100" wide.  Also, since I had loads of fabric and wasn't making scraps, I pieced my color families as she suggests and then chopped and pieced the strips - I didn't need the shorter strips together.  Mine's not as blended as the original but I really like it.  Since this is the backing for "Lollypop Trees", which measures 94" square, the edges of this quilt will end up being cut off.  This took a solid week to piece - I listened to The Coral Thief (great!) and The Cave Girl (ridiculous!) while piecing it.


I'm now going to make a tuffet!