Bold Blooms: ALYoF December Finish

My final finish of 2014! I bought the fabrics: 7 light fat quarters (black on white), 12 dark fat quarters (reds), accent and binding fabric (black on black), border (white on black) and backing... eight and a half years ago during the 2006 Shop Hop by The Bay. I had no idea what I was making, but loved the mystery of it. (I had pieced the mystery quilt from the shop hop two years before using bright, bold colors and I'd loved watching the design emerge.) I started it immediately, but back then I wasn't sewing very regularly. I worked on and off over the years and this year I finally tried to really focus on finishing since I was able to carve out regular sewing time. There have been so many progress posts about my mystery quilt over the last year. It's so great to finally have a 100% finished quilt to show you.

I've come a long way in my skills since starting this. I think this is one of the frustrations of working on a really old WIP. My piecing has improved (yay for a nearly perfect 1/4" seam allowance), I can free motion quilt now, and my understanding of value has improved, to name a few. I've also started using Aurifil thread to piece and quilt and I press my seams open.

I quilted in Aurifil 50wt grey #2605 I like to match my top and bobbin thread and decided anything more bold would fight with the fun backing fabric and I wanted it to just blend. It finished at 65" by 83". I'm really looking forward to wrapping this up and giving it to my dear friend.

Linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts and ALYoF December Finishes. By the way, I'm a little jealous of all of you aren't feverishly trying to finish your December goal today because yours has been done for a while already. ;-)

Also linking up to Finish Along 2014 Wrap Up Party. Here's my full list of (mostly still incomplete) Q4 goals.

20 thoughts on “Bold Blooms: ALYoF December Finish

    1. sarah

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      Thanks! It feels so good to finish an old project. I think I have one more WIP in the "ancient" category... ya know, that partially completed quilt I gave my brother for Christmas in (cough cough) 2004. I should probably finish that up soon too.

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    1. sarah

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      Thanks! I love the backing fabric too, Jen. How did I not finish this sooner! I'm glad I have a decent amount of scraps left, though I don't know what I'll do with them yet. I made little pouch zip bags years ago with a different bra fabric in the interior. Maybe I'll make this the inside of something new. I love how striking black, white and a color can be.

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    1. sarah

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      Thanks, Carie. One of my goals this year should be no finish things before the last day of the month. ;-)

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  1. Beverly Fuchs

    I made this same quilt years ago but haven't quilted it yet. Is the name of that mystery quilt actually Bold Blooms?

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