I’ve got plans to head to Mom’s in mid-March. Whenever I got to Mom’s, I like to take at least two tops to quilt. But so far, I only had one – the Blockhead Bee top.

So I decided since I finally had some time to get in the studio this weekend, I needed to complete a top. I only had two choices – the diagonal four patches, or the retirement quilt.

Since the retirement quilt has a deadline (April 30th), so I figured that was the obvious choice… and I got to it!

And Burton immediately got to helping!

Working around him, I sewed and sewed and sewed until I got all the sashings done.

And then it was just a matter of sewing everything together. And throwing on some borders.

The boys gave it a thorough comfort test. When I have them some treats for their effort, I was able to get a better shot.

It’s fairly simple, just nine-patch stars with cornerstars. But it creates a few different secondary patterns depending on how you focus on it. And that’s one of the things I love about quilting!