Circling the Rainbow--A Favorite Finish!

Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs has started a brand new monthly link-up called Favorite Finish. It's a place for us to share our favorite finish of the past month. Her timing couldn't be better, because I have my first finish of 2019 ready to share, and it is truly one of my favorite quilts ever! I wish there were beautiful outdoor photos showing the quilt draped over a park bench or something like that, but all I have are straight-on hanging shots that were taken indoors.

Circling the Rainbow, 50" x 61"
based on "True Colors" by Nancy Mahoney
from her book Simple Circles and Quick Curves

This is my Circling the Rainbow quilt, which was started in January of 2015 as part of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Every month that year, I appliqued circles in the assigned color for each month to their black-and-white-print backgrounds. There are 143 applique blocks total in this quilt. Instead of arranging the colors in vertical columns as Nancy's design had them, I went with more of a wash of color across the quilt.

The quilting design was chosen to emphasize the circles and is done in grey thread. Each applique circle has three rings of stitching around it, and they overlap to form interlocking shapes. The beautiful quilting was done by Jan Walsh of Cat's Meow Quilting of Brookfield, Wisconsin.

For anyone wanting a closer view of my quilt, I am thrilled to announce that you will be able to see it at AQS Quilt Week in Paducah at the end of this month. Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend the show this year, but it is a great honor to have my quilt on display there.

Linking up to:

Favorite Finish at Meadow Mist Designs

Needle and Thread Thursday at My Quilt Infatuation
Whoop Whoop Friday at Confessions of a Fabric Addict
Finished or Not Friday at Busy Hands Quilts
Rainbow Scrap Challenge at soscrappy

Oh Scrap! at Quilting is more fun than Housework

15 Minutes and Stash Report Sunday 12/2/18

The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas always seem to be extra busy, but it feels that way even more than usual this year. It started with the news over Thanksgiving weekend that my 15 year old car needs $3500 in repairs! That's not happening, so it's time to start shopping for another car. Then there was the work deadline that suddenly moved to three days earlier than originally planned, leaving us scrambling to finish projects. It also meant working lots of extra hours last week, which seriously cut into my quilting time!

Kate's 15 Minutes to Stitch challenge at Life in Pieces has us keep track of how many days each week we are able to spend at least 15 minutes quilting. I missed posting my stash report and 15 Minute totals last week, and I was surprised to discover that there was only one day with no quilting time during that two week stretch. That is definitely better than expected, even though I don't seem to have a lot to show for it.

15 Minute Challenge:  
11/18 - 12/1        13 of 14 days
2018 Total        325 of 335 days

As for the stash report, over the last two weeks I used 1 yard for the sashing on my first Squared Away quilt top (see it in yesterday's post) and 5/8 yard for the binding on my Circling the Rainbow quilt. I'm up against a deadline on that quilt and need to get the binding finished today!

One last corner to miter!

2018 STASH TOTALS

Used last week:                      1.625 yards

Used year to date:                   73.75 yards
Added last week:                        0.0 yards

Added year to date:                 34.75 yards
Net used year to date:           39.0 yards

Check out more stash reports at quiltpaintcreate, and join the 15 Minutes to Stitch challenge at Life in Pieces. 

Julie in GA