Welcome to another Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday! Today I'm celebrating my first, second, AND third finishes for this year's WIPS-B-GONE challenge. That's right, the challenge only started on Tuesday and I already have three finishes! Of course, they're all mini quilts that only needed binding, but that's not the important part here. The important part is that they're finished!
If you're not familiar with WIPS-B-GONE, it's my annual challenge to finish up some lingering works-in-progress during October and November. Check out this post for all the details or go here to join the fun.
You can find the Merry Mini pattern in my shop. I made these three Merry Minis during the Merry Mini Christmas in July QAL. I mostly kept up with the QAL (I have a tendency to fall behind even when I'm the one hosting, lol), and when I did fall behind I got caught up again...right up until the end. The last few days of July were too hot to spend in the sewing room, which is on the upper floor of the house, and my parents were here visiting, and Paul and I were getting ready to head across the country for our anniversary trip hiking in the Rockies. July ended and my Merry Minis were not finished.
When we got back from our trip, I jumped right in to working on Tiered Treasure in preparation for its release to Stash Artists members (Join the waitlist here. Stash Artists doors will be opening again next month!). I've looked at the minis a few times since then, thinking I should get them finished, but I always found a reason to put it off.
If I'm being honest, once the QAL ended, there wasn't the same urgency to get them finished. There was no deadline anymore, and I've learned that I work best when I have a deadline. It's one of the reasons I find the WIPS-B-GONE challenge so helpful. Sure, it's a me-made deadline, and there are no real consequences if I don't meet it, but telling people I'm going to work on certain projects makes me feel that urgency again, so I actually do work on them.
And shockingly, when I work on things, I finish them! Case in point, three lovely Merry Minis bound and ready for display come December. One will be mine, though I haven't decided yet which one I'll keep - embroidered, crayon, or fabric marker. I love them all! The others will be Christmas gifts, and this is by far the earliest I have any handmade Christmas gifts finished.
It's only the Merry Christmas that is either embroidered, done with crayon, or with fabric marker. Here's the crayon one,
the fabric marker one,and the embroidered one. The fabric panel of this one got a bit discoloured when I washed away the Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy I used to transfer the text. It's not super noticeable in person, especially when you only look at this quilt, not at all three together.
All the other projects I plan to work on during the WIPS-B-GONE challenge will take a lot more work than these minis did, but it still feels great to start the challenge with a bang.
One more thing before you link up your own finishes and head off to visit some of the other links. If you'd like to learn to sew curves, I just opened registration for a Conquering Curves workshop on November 2nd. Go here for all the details.
Okay, now you can link up your finishes so we can celebrate with you!
I'm surprised how good the crayons look! As good as the marker. Cute mini loop de loop quilting on all three!!!
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