I did it. I just added the last border to my tumbling spools quilt top. This one has been close to a year in the making. I purchased the magazine that had the pattern some time at the start of 2010 and posted about it in February.
Tumbling Spools Scrap Quilt Top
I’m proud of the workmanship in this top. It lies flat and I can see in it how I have learned new skills and improved my consistency since I started piecing it about ten months ago. No two blocks are identical. I had to re-make one block to accomplish that.
This is the most forgiving pattern ever. There are lots of points that are a bit cut off here and there or that don’t quite reach the corners they should, but you can’t tell. Love that.
A Journey with Fibre 
Very nice quilt. It looks like there was a lot of piecing – and so many points that had to match up. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for your words of encouragement. Believe me, lots of points don’t match up, but you really can’t see it because there’s so much going on in this quilt. The sashing hides all the imperfections :-)
Looks good