Welcome! Today I am hosting this week's TGIFF - Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday!
TGIFF is all about sharing finishes and today I want to show off my Flying Colors quilt!
It is a Cozy Pattern Original.
This project started out as a kit I won in January 2011 when Quilting Blogs were all the rage and Give-Aways were happening right and left. I just happened to get lucky and I won a kit to make a Flying Colors quilt!
When I got it in the mail, I was super excited, but I'll admit I was a little intimidated to start it, as it looked really complicated. So I kept putting it off and it sat in the shelf for years.
Since all the fabrics were picked and the pattern was tucked in with them, to me, it officially became a UFO. It was actually one of my oldest, I have four more on my list that are older, but I will get to those another time.
Last month, when I decided to spend a good chunk of time cutting out projects, this one made the cut. I ended up cutting out five projects and got them ready to sew, which I compared similar to meal prep: getting everything ready in advance so when your short on time or energy you can grab a meal prepped kit and start cooking it, or in this case, just start sewing. I made a quick YouTube video about quilt "meal" prepping along with some tips, which you can check out here:
A few weeks after I cut everything out, I finished up a UFO and needed another one to work on. In January of this year, I challenged myself to sew at least fifteen minutes a day on my UFOs and so far I have done pretty good. I have missed a few days here and there, but I always jump back on and have done pretty good at knocking out a few UFOs and some of them were pretty big projects.
So with another UFO complete, I let the Random Number Generator picked the next UFO to work on and it chose this one, Flying Colors!
With all the cutting done it was easy to jump right into the sewing. And after a few weeks, it was finally finished. If you are interested, I've been updating my weekly UFO progress each Wednesday with quick three to four minute videos on YouTube. I've grouped them all together in one play list, but if you only want to see how I worked on this this quilt, you can start with Episode 38.
I'll show off this finish in my next video update on Wednesday (Episode 41) and I'll pick out a new UFO from my list to work on. But as part of TGIFF, you all get to see the finish first!
Honestly, the quilt came together way easier than I thought it would. Once I got everything cut out, I realized it really wasn’t intimidating at all. It was fun to put together and came together pretty quickly, even with me mostly working on it in 15-minute chunks.
So what have you all been working on? Do you have a recent finish to share? If so add your link to the link party below and spread the word!
Be sure to tour all the other finishes and share the comment love! You never know what link could inspire your next finish!
To catch everyone's Friday, the link party is open from Oct 9 at 6pm to Oct 11 at 11:59.
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