February Goal Is Finished

 

     I finished my February OMG on Saturday but it took a while to get the post finished.  It was difficult to get good photos.  It was either too cloudy or too windy or too sunny. 

      It's my first finish for the First Quarter of the 2018 Finish Along (you can find my original  list here.  I managed to finish the quilt  as many  quilting friends were enjoying themselves at Quilt Con in Pasadena. This was fitting as this simple little quilt had it's origins at Quilt Con, last year in Savannah.
     
     My friend Laura from the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild won this pack of charm squares and she felt she wouldn't use them as they weren't her style.  I offered to take them to make a donation quilt.  It only took me a whole year to get it finished.

    I opted to stitch the charms together into a couple of blocks and surround them with negative space.  These charm squares are so happy and I thought they looked really good sitting side by side.

      I had a lot of fun with the quilting which is done with the walking foot.  I quilted intersecting straight lines through the charms creating a starry look.  I picked up this method of quilting at the Jacquie Gering workshop I went to last summer.  I then quilted straight lines in the rest of the quilt.  I had a lot of fun changing the direction of the quilting and figured out what I wanted to do with the quilting as I went.   

     I'm linking up my finish with the OMG linkup at Elm Street Quilts and I'll link up with the FAL linkup later in March, but I'll leave you with this last picture where the wind turned my quilt into a flying carpet!  I'm also linking up with TGIFF which is hosted at What A Hoot Quilts this week.