TGIFF - This Earth is Our Dancefloor, This Dancefloor is our World

Welcome to Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday (TGIFF).  TGIFF is the opportunity to share your finishes from this week.  You can find out who is hosting each week by heading over to the TGIFF blog.

Last year, I was offered the opportunity to contribute a quilt to an exhibit at the Dalhousie Art Gallery -- It's About Time:  Dancing Black in Canada.

The curator had ideas of what she wanted the quilt to portray.  I am pleased that I was able to bring her vision to life.  This is:  "This Earth is Our Dancefloor, This Dancefloor is our World."  It is a 36 x 36 inch wall hanging.

On the advice of friends, I quilted a straight-line grid in the diamond-ish areas to represent the dance floor.  In the orange peels, I did big stitch hand quilting to echo the inner curves.

The curator of the exhibit has purchased the quilt, so when the exhibit concludes next month, it will go home with her.

The artist statement was created from the vision and information provided from the curator.

It's time for you to link up your finishes from this week.  Please also visit a few of the link ups to get some inspiration and to share some quilty love. ♥ 

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TGIFF - Project Quilting 14.5

Welcome to this week's edition of Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday.  TGIFF is the opportunity to share your finish from this week. You can find out who is hosting each week by heading over to the TGIFF blog.

We are on the penultimate challenge of Project Quilting Season 14, which is hosted by Kim @ Persimon Dreams and Trish @ Quilt Chicken.  This week's theme is Sew Not a Square -- use any shape but a square.

I found this tutorial for a hexagon quilt and decided to make one block as a mug rug.  The pattern uses strips and triangles.

Somehow I managed to sew my strips wrong and didn't get a swirling effect.  I was almost done when I realized my error, so decided to keep going.  I did some big stitch quilting with perle cotton.

It's about 7 inches wide and 6 inches high.

It's time to link up your finishes from this week. Please visit a few of the link ups to get some inspiration and to share some quilty love.

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Wonky Wedges Baby Quilt - Citified Blog Tour

Today is my turn on the Citified blog tour hosted by Sherry @ Powered by Quilting for her fourth signature line from Island Batik.

I used a technique I learned from a Melissa Marginet workshop -- Wonky Wedges -- to showcase these wonderful fabrics.  This baby quilt finishes about 37 inches.

This is great fabric collection of wonderful colours and prints.

I need to add the binding, which I hope to finish later today.  I am planning a matched binding.  I overestimated my ability to get up early this morning to finish. 😊

I am in a temporary apartment while my house undergoes repairs, so I have limited sewing supplies and have been sewing on my Singer Featherweight.  So I did big stitch hand quilting using Wonderfil perle cotton.  Here are close up photos of each of the four quadrants so you can see the fabrics and the quilting.

Stay tuned for more photos once I finish the binding.

*Giveaway Alert*

Leave a comment for a chance to win the leftover fabric from my project.  The giveaway will end at midnight, Monday, March 21, 2022.  If you are a non-reply commenter, I will have to re-draw for a new winner.

Although I am at the end of the blog tour, here is the schedule so you can check out all the projects:

March 8 – Sherry Shish of Powered By Quilting 

March 9 – Tammy Silvers of Tamarinis

March 11 – Kate Starcher of Katie Mae Quilts

March 12 – Leanne Parsons of Devoted Quilter

March 13 – Sally Williams of Paleofish Designs

March 14 – Afton Warrick of Quilting Mod

March 15 – Sarah Vanderburgh of Sew Joy Creations

March 16 – Jen Strauser of Dizzy Quilter

March 17 – Kathryn LeBlanc of Dragonfly’s Quilting Design Studio

March 18 – Laura Piland of Slice of Pi Quilts

March 19 – Anja Clyke of Anja Quilts

March 20 – Sherry Shish of Powered By Quilting

TGIFF - Wonky Wedges Pillow

I took an online workshop with Melissa Marginet at the end of September -- Wonky Wedges.  I was so  intrigued by the photo in the workshop flyer that I used the same colour scheme for my own version.  I used Kona Natural, Storm, and Yarrow.

The technique to make the wedges is quite interesting and makes piecing easy.

I used Wonderfil perle cotton for big stitch quilting.  My free-hand Xs are a bit wonky.  When I used my hera marker to mark the Xs to give me some guidance with stitching, they turned out much better.

I'm linking up with:

Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday @ Rebecca Grace Quilting

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Finished or Not Friday @ Alycia Quilts

Needle and Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation

Brag About Your Beauties @ From Bolt to Beauty

Friday Foto Fun @ Powered by Quilting 

UFO Busting @ Tish's Adventure in Wonderland

TGIFF - Cloud Surfing Workshop

Welcome to Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday.  TGIFF is the opportunity to share your finish from this week.  You can find out who is hosting each week by heading over to the TGIFF blog.

I participated in a Zoom workshop with Shannon @ Shannon Fraser Designs for her Cloud Surfing pattern, which uses oval curves.  I made the baby size -- 34 inches.

I used Kona:  Quicksilver, White, Kumquat, Grapemist, and Regal.

I did straight line machine quilting in the background fabric and then did some big stitch hand quilting with perle cotton.

It didn't turn out how I envisioned, so I added more hand quilting and added more colours.  LOL  I definitely like it better now.

I love the texture.

It's now time to share your finish from this week.  I encourage you to visit a few of the links ups to get some inspiration and to share some quilty love.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Here are some other places you can share your finish from this week:

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Finished or Not Friday @ Alycia Quilts

Needle and Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation

Brag About Your Beauties @ From Bolt to Beauty

Friday Foto Fun @ Powered by Quilting 

UFO Busting @ Tish's Adventure in Wonderland

TGIFF - Harmony Hand Pieced QAL

Thanks to Patty @ Elm Street Quilts and Kristin @ Simple Handmade Everyday for another great hand-pieced pattern and QAL.

This finishes at 28 inches.  I used Kona Grapemist (background), Lemon, Bright Pink, and Chartreuse.

I did machine stitch the binding to the front but hand stitched it to the back.

I used matching perle cotton, but in the corners, I stitched a line of each of the four colours.

I found a fun print in my stash to use for the backing.

I enjoy big stitch quilting on small projects like this.

I used my favourites:

• Hobbs Heirloom Premium 80/20 batting
• Wonderfil Perle Cotton
• Kona Cotton

I'm linking up with:

Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday @ Alycia Quilts

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Finished or Not Friday @ Alycia Quilts

Needle and Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation

Brag About Your Beauties @ From Bolt to Beauty

Friday Foto Fun @ Powered by Quilting 

UFO Busting @ Tish's Adventure in Wonderland

Dust Off an Old Book Blog Hop

Once again, Bea @ Beaquilter is hosting the Dust Off an Old Book Blog Hop.  I participated last year and made my version of the Redwork pattern from The Modern Quilt Workshop by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr.

I don't have many quilt books, so I choose a project from the Quilt in a Day GO! Qube book by Eleanor Burns that came with my Ready. Set. GO! Accuquilt cutting system.

I choose the Louisana project and used my Accuquilt to cut all the pieces.  I used Kona:  Sprout, Orchid Ice, and Peony.

The bonus of using the Accuquilt to cut the pieces, they all fit together nicely, and there is no trimming needed.

I decided to handpiece this project.  It gives me the opportunity to be creative in the evenings when I'm too tired to sit at the sewing machine.

I did big stitch hand quilting using perle cotton.  I started out stitching the purple triangles.  I was undecided on the green rectangles, but thought I could continue the triangle theme but didn't factor in the bottom of the triangle.  But I liked the effect.  I attempted a triangle in the small pink triangles, but I managed not to have distinct points at the top of the triangle, so it looks like curved stitching.

When I choose the Kona colours, I thinking spring and Easter.  I used Kona Canary for the binding.  This finishes 16 inches.

This is the list of bloggers participating in the blog hop this week:

Monday, March 1

Words and Stitches

Samelia’s Mum

High Road Quilter

Tuesday, March 2

Karin’s Crazy World

Lemon Tree Snippets

Anja Quilts

Wednesday, March 3

Beaquilter

Cynthia’s Creating Ark

A Quilting Readers Garden

Thursday, March 4

Kathy’s Kwilts and More

Quilting Patchwork Applique

The Darling Dogwood

Creatin’ in the Sticks

Friday, March 5

Beaquilter

Quilting at the farm

Kathleen McMusing

TGIFF - Midwinter Quilt

Welcome to the final Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday for 2020.  TGIFF is the opportunity to share your finish from this week.  The link up will stay open until midnight Sunday due to the holiday season.

If you would like to host TGIFF in 2021, the spreadsheet of dates has been updated.  You can sign up here.

Today's finish is courtesy of a tutorial from Ben Millett - Midwinter Mini Quilt.

I used the same Kona colours as in the tutorial:  Evergreen, Enchanted, Sage, White, Desert Green, and Ochre.

I wanted the design to speak for itself, so simple quilting -- big stitch hand quilting in matching perle cotton.

Merry Christmas.  I hope you are able to spend time with family and friends this holiday season.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Here are some other links to share your finish:

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Finished or Not Friday @ Alycia Quilts

Needle and Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation

Brag About Your Beauties @ From Bolt to Beauty

Friday Foto Fun @ Powered by Quilting 

UFO Busting @ Tish's Adventure in Wonderland

Ray Quilt Along

Have you been sewing along with Carolyn Friedlander for her Ray Quilt Along?  It's a free pattern on her blog.

I had some ombré fabrics in my stash, but I only had a quarter yard, so I cut my strips 4.5 inches.  My colour layout was limited by the few pieces I had.

I did big stitch hand quilting with Wonderfil perle cotton #8.

I was even bold enough to do a matched binding.  I pieced together bits of Kona cotton.

 

I can't wait to make another version of the Ray quilt.

This is quilt finish #1 of 20 quilt tops that I plan/want/hope (fingers crossed xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) to finish before the end of the year.  We'll see how that goes.  LOL

TGIFF - Beothuk Star

The Beothuk Star Quilt Along started in April 2019.  Sandra @ Musings of a Menopausal Melon hosts a QAL every year, and it's always fun to sew along.

This quilt top has been waiting since June 2019 while I tried to figure out a quilting plan.  I have been enjoying some big stitch hand quilting with perle cotton, so I finally settled on that.  I used #EZ03 Silverware perle cotton by Wonderfil.  It blended so well, it was hard to photograph.

I am still amazed at how much I have been enjoying big stitch hand quilting.  So much so, I just ordered 18 balls Wonderfil perle cotton. 😊

I can't wait to see what Sandra has planned for the 2021 QAL.

This was one of my 2020 PHD projects.  PHD is hosted by Gail @ Quilting Gail.  I think I have three more projects left to finish, but there's still four more weeks left in 2020.

I'm linking up with:

Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday @ Pretty Piney Quilts

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Finished or Not Friday @ Alycia Quilts

Needle and Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation

Brag About Your Beauties @ From Bolt to Beauty

Friday Foto Fun @ Powered by Quilting 

UFO Busting @ Tish's Adventure in Wonderland

TGIFF - Book Club QAL

Earlier this year, I participated in the Book Club QAL hosted by Patty @ Elm Street Quilts and Kristin @ Simple Handmade Everyday   As usual, I put the quilt top aside to be quilted later.  😀

The quilt top is all hand pieced, so I wanted to do big stitch hand quilting with perle cotton.

I used orange thread to quilt inside all the orange fabrics and blue inside the blue fabrics.  Unfortunately, the blue blended a bit too well.  I stitched straight lines in white thread in the sashing and borders.

Here's a closeup of the stitching.

I used Wonderfil #8 perle cotton for the quilting and to hand stitch the binding.

So glad to cross another UFO off the list.  

I'm linking up with:

Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday @ Storied Quilts

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict
Finished or Not Friday @ Alycia Quilts

Needle and Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation

Brag About Your Beauties @ From Bolt to Beauty

Friday Foto Fun @ Powered by Quilting 

UFO Busting @ Tish's Adventure in Wonderland