One goal I had for this year was to finish the six quilt tops I found hanging in my sewing room closet. I looked at the photo I posted in January and checked on my progress. I managed to finish five of the six quilt tops. I don’t seem to know where I put one of the quilt tops (hanger #5). I’m not worried; I’ll find it eventually. Maybe I should look in my closet again?
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Here’s the starting line up.

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I made this quilt top in 1991; my first quilt top ever. Twenty-five years later (2016) I took it to be professionally quilted and then I added the binding. It’s on hanger #4 in the first photo.

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Shelly and I made our Carpenter’s Star quilt tops together a few years ago; hanger #3. Size = 48 x 48 inches.

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I took a Jelly Roll class at Sew Much More and made several of them; hanger #2. Size = 56 x 71 inches.

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Jelly Roll quilt #2; hanger #1. Size = 54 x 65 inches.

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Jelly Roll quilt #3; hanger #6. Size = 64 x 79 inches.

I have made several other items this year, so completing five of six of my UFOs was definite progress.

Abracadabra! Almost like magic! From a pile of half square triangles . . .

. . . to a quilt! Actually, this is the quilt top. It’s at the quilter’s as we speak and soon it will be a quilt!

This is the first quilt top I ever made. I took a class at The Quilt Store (now closed) in 1991. (I’m pretty sure it was 1991.)  I was just learning how to sew.

A few months ago, I took it to a professional quilter (Mary Golden in Cedar Creek) and got it quilted. Last week I put on the binding.

Yes, 25 years between making the quilt top and finishing the quilt. Never say never, right?