MQ 9 Tranquility Mystery Quilt "Apple Maze" Completed

It's a great day!! My largest, and last, UFO is done!!  Pieced Fall 2013, it was one of the Quilters Club of America's numbered Mystery Quilts, MQ9.  It's official name is "Tranquility" but with all this red, mine isn't tranquil!  I'm calling mine Apple Maze. 

It's big--the first quilt I've made that has a great hang over on each side of a queen size bed. It's long too. The photo above just shows a portion of the quilt.

Here's a detail of a couple of the pieced and appliqued apples in the borders on each side of the quilt. I think these apples are my favorite part of this quilt, though I really like apple quilting too!

I'm SO happy it's finally done!!

UFO: Tranquility (MQ9 Quilters Club of America Mystery Quilt)

My oldest UFO (unfinished quilt) is finally out of its bag and well on the way to being completed!  The quilt, a mystery quilt hosted by The Quilters Club of America, is MQ9 "Tranquility". I pieced it in the fall of 2013 so that really a UFO!

I had a lovely day yesterday at Bits 'n Pieces Quilt Shop in Pelham, NH, renting one of their HandiQuilter long arm quilting machines. Above you can see a detail of the beautiful computerized apple quilting designed I chose for this apple themed quilt.

I still need to quilt the borders which have some applique and then add a binding. But now, after 3 years, it's well on it's way to being a completed quilt!