Welcome to the last TGIFF party for October! Being near the end of October means I am deep into my annual WIPS-B-GONE challenge, a challenge where I (along with everyone else taking part) try to finish some of my lingering works-in-progress. So far during this year's challenge, I've finished my three Merry Mini quilts started earlier this year, made a lot of progress on my Hexie Rainbow quilt top (this was yesterday's stitching),
and on Tuesday (day 22 of the challenge), I finished a Burst quilt top. The Burst pattern is available in my shop as a PDF and a printed pattern.
I thought I'd get to take pictures of the quilt top outside yesterday, hanging on my photography backdrop stand, but the wind was crazy, so it wasn't even worth trying. Taped up on the wall will have to do for now.
This is my third Burst quilt. The first is the one on the pattern cover, made with my Island Batik scraps back when I was an Island Batik ambassador. The second was a Burst mini quilt, which I finished during WIPS-B-GONE in 2022, after it had been sitting partially quilted for two years.
I made the blocks for this throw size Burst over the past couple of years while teaching my Paper Piecing with Freezer Paper workshop, and finished the last blocks back in the spring. I'm happy to finally have them put together into a quilt top!
Side note, if you'd like to learn how to use freezer paper for your paper piecing, and never again have to rip out the bits of paper after finishing your blocks, check out my on-demand workshop! I love the freezer paper technique, partly because I always hated removing the paper after making my blocks, and partly because I can reuse the freezer paper templates.
I love scrappy quilts! This one has fabrics so old I can't even remember where they came from, like this red one.
It has a lot of Island Batik fabrics, too. The boxes of fabric they sent to ambassadors were so generous!
On the other end of the spectrum, there are some newer fabrics included, too. This pink one is from a swap with the Canadian Modern Quilt Collective last year, for which we all received the same fat quarter bundle to make our quilts. You can see the quilt I made here, and the one I received here.
Monday night I basted the cover quilt for the next Stash Artists pattern, so I don't have enough pins to baste this Burst quilt, which means it's going into the to-be-quilted pile unfortunately. That's a scary place for a quilt top to land, lol, as the pile just seems to keep growing and growing. I hope to spend a good portion of November working on some of those tops in the pile for WIPS-B-GONE, though, beginning with my Indecisive quilt, which has been basted and partially quilted for years. I pieced the top in February 2018 and basted it right away, and I think I started the quilting right away, too. That's almost 7 years ago! It's high time it became a finished quilt!
For now, though, I'm celebrating that I have a newly finished quilt top! What finish are you celebrating this week?
I remember these quilts very well! Nice to have a flimsy done!
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