This week, it’s my turn to host TGIFF!!! If you weren’t aware, Thank Goodness It’s FINISHED Friday is a Link Party for you to show off your lovely finishes each week. And since it’s a party, it’s good to socialize and visit others to see their finishes as well!

To be honest, it had slipped my mind that I was to host TGIFF this week. Yes, it was written on my calendar, but that doesn’t help when I don’t look at it! Anyhow, Anja, one of the managers, sent me a lovely email earlier in the week reminding me … SEW ….

The colour for March in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is Red. I had a disappearing 9 patch quilt in mind using some red fabric that I got from a Trend-Tex tour when Quilt Canada was in Vancouver … several years ago! And I had a hunk of white fabric hanging around …

It didn’t take long to cut enough 5″ red and white squares for 7 nine patches. It was quick work to sew them up together and then slice them up. When I put them on the design wall, I realized that I needed to make 2 outside rows of 2 ¹/₂” red squares, separated by 2 ¹/₂” x 5″ white rectangles to make the quilt symmetrical. Thankfully, I had enough of the red fabrics left over to make enough of the red squares. But, I had left one set of blocks on the cutting table, so I added them to the mix in order to make the quilt a better size for a baby quilt.

Then the quilt was webbed together and the borders on … This took most of one day to get the flimsy finished.

The next day, I sandwiched the quilt and quilted it with straight line quilting. The binding was added and Ta Da! the quilt was done! It even got a label for a donation to the baby quilt committee!

And a close up of the quilting:

Quilt Stats:

• Size: 37 ¹/₂” square
• Block size: 6 ¹/₂” x 6 ¹/₂“
• Fabric: from stash …
• Hobbs Batting: Heirloom 80/20 – bleached
• Aurifil Thread: 50 weight
  • Piecing & Quilting: #2600 (Dove Grey)
• Schmetz Needles: Universal 80/12
• Oliso Iron

Link Party

And here is the Link for you to show us your FINISH this week:

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

Don’t Forget!

I am now a Silly Moon affiliate! So what does that mean? When you use my affiliate code Quiltinggail2024 at Silly Moon, you will receive 10% off your order and I will receive a small commission.

One who sleeps under a quilt is covered by LOVE!

Happy Quilting!    
Gail 

Linking to:  

• Wednesday Wait Loss @  Inquiring Quilter
• Happy Needle  and Thread @  My Quilt Infatuation
• Andrée / I Quilted This @ Quilting & Learning – What a combo!
• Put your Foot Down @ A Quiltery
• Finished or Not Friday  @ Alycia Quilts
• Michelle @ From Bolt to Beauty
• Off the Wall Friday @ Creations – Quilts, Art, Whatever