Cheers to a finished project!

It's been a long time since I finished a project. I've had at least one craft project in progress for over two years now, but between surviving graduate school and planning a wedding, crafting for anything else was just not happening. Post-wedding I purchased fabric like a fiend and had stacks ready to go for a total of six quilts and two home decor projects.

Four months later I had three works-in-progress, fabric sorted for four more quilts and a home decor project mostly done. Oh , and in the meantime I also built wedding albums for our parents and sent out tins and gift bags of Christmas cookies to our friends and family I’d been baking since October...


I think I may have overloaded myself a little.

But a deadline finally approached that drove me to move something into a new pile. And on Saturday I succeeded by completing a quilt for our goddaughter.

My husband was traveling to New Orleans for work and would deliver this quilt when he saw our friends; so if I didn’t want to ship it (and be teased for months about never finishing anything on time), it had to be done by Saturday night. Whew!

I love the finished result of this quilt. I hadn’t tried a Disappearing 9-Patch before and was a little unsure of how it was coming together. If I use this design again, I’ll keep a little more continuity in the blocks when I piece them into the 9-patch and cut them into quarters. But for a 2 year old little girl who loves pink, I think the bright mix of prints were just the ticket. Plus the orange, brown and aqua make it a little more modern and will hopefully provide some staying power as she gets older.

For the back, I made three extra blocks and staggered them with the same solid pink as the binding. I'm also trying to be better about collecting and using more scraps, so I created a border with small squares cut from the blocks. To quilt it, I created a diagonal grid to focus on the orange and aqua squares and used a light pink solid to bind.

Finished size is 47”x47”.