Finished Top!
 

I have been hand piecing this quilt top for TWO YEARS and I'm finally done! Now for the quilting (another two years???). I don't think I'll be letting the kids use this one their blanket forts! Just thought you all might appreciate the photo. You have helped me along the way!

Beautiful! Congratulations on the finished top.

Love the colors and pattern! The best place for the quilt is on your bed or displayed for everyone to appreciate. Many hours of piecing, pressing, ripping(?). It's lovely!

Oh my , This is beautiful.

Sew Beautiful, great job!!!!!!

All I can say is WOW, very beautiful! Love everything about it.

Gorgeous quilt! I'd say two years would've been just about enough for me to finish the HST. Putting it together would've been another adventure.

Wow, that is a lot of hand piecing! It turned out gorgeous!

Perfect!!! :-):-):-):-):-)

OMG that's beautiful. So much work had to be done! That definitely is not fort-worthy!

What a wonderful "Ocean Waves" quilt - that is quite an accomplishment - I hope it doesn't take two years but it looks like its worth it.

Beautiful quilt, and what an accomplishment!

Do you mind if I ask why you decided to hand piece it? Was it for increased accuracy, or because you just enjoy hand piecing, or maybe for the experience or the challenge? I've thought about hand piecing a quilt sometime, just to see how it's done, but to undertake something so large and challenging just boggles the mind. Congratulations for a job well done.

Beautifully done and handpieced I am very impressed, wonderful work.

Beautiful quilt!!! and the fabric colors just make it pop and look three dimensional.
Very well done.

That is beautiful and looks like a lot of work, can see why they won't use it for a fort.

I do hand piecing because of all those things! I like the challenge, I like to have something to do while I'm watching tv, I like to be kind of "old-timey", and, although I didn't know it when I started, I can't do triangles by machine. I just cannot figure it out! I usually have a hand project (ot two) and a machine project (or two) going on simultaneously. This quilt really was not difficult - just time consuming and repetitive - but I knew it would be so cool when I finished. Now I feel like I've really accomplished something!

I wouldn't even start something with that many triangles. My hat is off to you, my dear!!! It's gorgeous!

Wow! Look at the DEPTH in THIS QUILT! This is a gorgeous quilt. wonderful. What kind of work went into it.

that is a big wow.. love it.just beautiful.:thumbup:

I'd say it was worth the two years...it's beautiful.

What a beauty, my Mom hand pieced all her quilts too.

Be proud. Be VERY proud. You are skilled, patient and determined. It's really beautiful.
Annie

That is gorgeous!!!You must have a lot of patience to hand sew all those triangles. Love it.

How special, I love it. The colors make me think of the San Jose Sharks. Enjoy the next step.

Very nice. It would have taken me far longer than two years if I had hand pieced ... actually ... I would have given up after a few day :0

I love the depth the contrast creates.

Well done

You did an awesome job! It's beautiful!

Absolutely stunning!!

Congrats! It is so beautiful and stunning. I have this pattern on my to do list. I must go and look again. Thanks for sharing and inspiring me!

Really pretty! Love the colors.

That is a beautiful quilt. Don't see many quilts with that many pieces that are done by hand anymore. Congratulations on a job well done!!

Oh my........2 years.......this is beautiful and congrats to you for finishing it!

You certainly have accomplished something! Your quilt is beautiful. I started hand piecing the quilt shown in my avatar when my son was in high school...1998. I got tired of it and it's still waiting on me to get inspired again. I think I just wanted to be able to say I had hand pieced and quilted a quilt like my grandma Ruby. My other grandma, Frieda always did hers on the machine. Maybe I will finish the hand piecing on the front and just quilt it on my sewing machine in memory of both of them. haha Again, your quilt is stunning. Great job!

Now that's alot of piecing...and it only took you 2 years. Beautiful quilt...blue and white can't go wrong.

Beautiful!

How beautiful. What a great job and what a lot of work!!

That's a lot of hand piecing and the results are totally awesome! (I find that hand quilting goes fairly fast if I keep it near at hand to grab when I head to the couch for a sit - it also keeps me awake in front of the telly!)

That is very pretty and lots of work, I would put it somewhere special!

It's too lovely to wait that long to quilt it! Get to work!

amazing job!