TGIFF Hosting-February Color-Block OMG Finish
Today is the first day in 2020 that we are hosting TGIFF, Thank Goodness It’s Finished Friday! I’m sharing this mid-day on Thursday so that our friends in all time zones may easily link up. Click the icon below if you’d like information about hosting a TGIFF day yourself. Our usual I Love Thursday post about our likes and loves for the week was shared yesterday. Today, we’ll introduce our 2019 Color-Block quilt all complete.

Friday Finish and Color-Block to Share
Yippee! I am so very excited to share the Friday Finish with you on TGIFF. This is our 2019 Color-Block quilt top that only had to wait its turn for quilting since the end of last year. That’s a pretty good turnaround time for me. We’re participating in the monthly color block challenge again this year so we will have a similar quilt top next year.
Here’s how it looked at the end of 2019 – well, it may not have been on the design wall because something else was more pressing. With nary a thought on how to quilt this, it was banished to the extra chair in the sewing room.
Color-Block Help From a Friend
Just when this piece may have languished about for all of 2020, inspiration struck in the form of another quilter. Kathleen of Kathleen McMusing shared her 2019 color block finish and quilting pattern. “Heatwave” is a pantograph and it looked like something I could try on my domestic sewing machine (on the left). Pantos are usually for longarm quilting machines.
I showed both ideas to Sue and she threw me a curveball when she chose the “Flame” design (on the right). I had to agree with her choice because I thought it would be quicker to stitch and also less dense for a softer-feeling quilt.
Getting Color-Block Busy
Layering began in earnest and before you know it I was quilting. Nothing really helped me to remember what I was supposed to be stitching. I tried having the reminder right in front of me on the sewing machine.
Lost in thought sometimes just occurred which caused me to stitch a few random blobs. In the end, it just doesn’t matter. Using up the last of this favorite fabric for the backing, I will have to see if this swirly spiral design in lovely beige is still available for purchase. Can’t you just feel all the squishy goodness on the closeup of the quilting?
TGIFF Color-Block Finish
Happily enough, this finished quilt came together easily enough. This post is going to serve multiple duties as I’ll be sharing it on Alycia’s Finished or Not Finished Friday, Michelle’s Beauties Pageant and also Patty’s OMG Elm Street Quilts link-up parties. I really enjoyed snuggling under this quilt as I tacked down the binding.
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Another good quilting job done! Congratulations on the finish. It looks scrunchy and cozy!
You’re my FMQ hero!
What a lovely quilt. That’s a nice FMQ pattern and once washed, the quilt looks so nice and cuddly! Congrats on your finish. BTW Muv is hosting Free Motion Mavericks this week. You may want to link up!
Beautiful! Thanks for linking up with Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal and congrats on your finish.
I am a big fan of quick finishes. I would have chosen the pattern on right as well. Not that I FMQ :-p
You can always add more quilting. It is a huge PITA to subtract. Love the end result!!!
I love the crinkly, cuddly quilting on this: blobs or not! Your colours are beautiful and it makes me smile! Perfect eye candy for a grey, snowy day. 😄 Carol
Yay! You have a happy color block finish! I love looking at your machine quilting as well!
Looks Fabulous. Love the colors
The quilting turned out wonderfully. I agree with Laura, incredible texture. Another fabulous finish! Take care, Mary.
That flame quilting is great. You are doing so well in your FMQ. Can hardly wait to see where you go next.
What a great quilt! Those colour blocks are really striking, and I love the texture of the quilting, especially after it’s been washed. You pushed yourself to do something different, and it worked. Congratulations!
A lovely finish, congratulations! Pretty Flame design too
That’s a fun looking design, I think I’ll try something like that on my current project. Thanks for hosting!
Fabulous finish Roseanne, and oh yes I can certainly feel the lovely softness of that soft quilt. And yeah that backing is awesome.
You did a great job on the quilting!
I would have chosen flame, on the right, whether it’s stitched on a longarm or not. The other one is too busy for this quilt, and harder to accomplish on a domestic. You need to start shopping for a longarm!
That quilting looks so soft and crinkly! It’s a wonderful finish! Thanks for hosting TGIFF this week 🙂
Oh how pretty!!
Kudos of trying the quilting design! After a wash you don’t see blobs or mistakes. With texture like that it’s all worth it!
It’s looks so comfy with it’s crinkly goodness! Nicely done.
the quilt turned out nicely and crinkly and soft looking – lovely!
Congratulations on a bright and fun finish.
Those colour blocks are such fun and I totally love too the flame fmq that you chose to do on the quilt. Love that close up of it. Awesome well done. Now to put our eyes on March!!
It’s perfect!! I need to start doing more than straight line quilting and stippling! I need to move out of my little box. LOL!
Love Love Love the crinkly goodness of this finished quilt! What a beautiful quilt! I want to snuggle under it!
Happy Quilting! 🙂
Well done! You already know I love this quilt but to see it all crinkly and done makes my heart sing! It’s a really, really fun finish!
OMG! That’s totally awesome. I remember most of your blocks from last year. That quilting pattern is so cool. It is simple but also has so much movement. I’ll try it on my next quilt.
IMHO: it’s the quilting and resultant crinklyness that makes this quilt! Great finish, Roseanne.
Love the texture the quilting created! Also love the attitude…’In the end, it just doesn’t matter. ‘ Ha, ha!
It turned out sooo good and I love the colored corner stones.
Nicely done ladies. You really are expanding your quilting skills, good for you!