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Houses in Yellow finished

Yay, it's finished! I've reached my goal for January in A Lovely Year of Finishes. 

This is Houses in Yellow. 

size: 50" x 60"

blocks made by: the members of the Comfort Circle of Do.Good Stitches (this is a European circle of an online charity bee)

finished by: me

will be donated to: a client of the Foodbank in The Hague

This is the back of the quilt:

Here is the goalsetting post, it was #3 in the goalsetting party. Now I'm linking to the finishes party.

The photos above were taken on the Scheveningen boulevard with a view on the North Sea. I took some close up photos at home:

Here you can see the mustard yellow binding.

I got creative with the label and turned it into a house, befitting the theme of this quilt.

And here is a process shot of when the front and the backing where still separate.

 

Instagram miniswap

In the summer I signed up for a swap of miniquilts. That was exciting! During my vacation in France I saw on Instagram that a swap was going to start. @curly_boy1 was organizing everything. The team I was assigned to was lead by Trash, #teamtrash, which was great. She did an awesome job!

Usually I don't sign up for a swap of such a large and work intensive item as a miniquilt. My solution in the past was to make something for myself instead to be on the safe side. I don't know why but this time I did jump in. I'm glad I did! It was fun to make a mini for someone I hadn't known before. I had to 'stalk' my partner Fiona (@fionamadeit) from Australia to figure out what she would like. In her info she wrote that she liked all kinds of triangles and that her favorite colors were blue, green and yellow. I started on one mini quilt based on a magazine picture, but in the end decided that it was not the one I was going to send. It was a bit too serious, and I felt Fiona needed a sunnier mini because it was summer where she lives. This is the mini I made for Fiona.

And this is the one I kept. In the meantime I finished it for my own wall but when I took the photo I was in the middle of adding the binding.

 

And I also received a miniquilt. It was made for me by Margaret (@formandfabric)!

I love the colors and block designs she used! It is going to look so good on the mini quilt wall I am planning in our new house. Thank you again, Margaret!

Together with the mini I also received a big pile of lovely fabric. You can see it here in my initial Instagram shot.

And here are some more photos related to the swap:

a close up of the mini I made

 

the backing with the label

and the goodies I sent along with the mini

Houses in yellow - alyof

Happy New Year! 2015, I hope it will be a lovely year, with only good surprises and lots of fun experiences. My family and I will move to a new home this year. The work on the house is still being done. We are going for as little stress as possible surrounding this move, but it will be exciting nonetheless. Before May we should be in the new house.

I was thinking about all the stuff I have to move to the new place, especially all the ufos (unfinished objects) that are in my drawer units and I thought that I should probably try to make these units a little lighter. So, finishing ufos! And this is where A Lovely Year of Finishes comes in. In 2013 I finished a lot of projects joining this link-up, in 2014 I didn't link up so often, but still finished quite a few things. This year 2015 I want to structure my work a bit more, so I'm joining ALYoF again.

Here is the goal setting party for this January. My goal (#3 in the link-up) for this month is to finish the Houses in Yellow quilt for the Comfort Circle of do.Good Stitches. I have all the blocks from my fellow bee members. So I need to organize the backing, batting, quilting and binding. And of course I still need to sew the blocks into a top. Good thing January has 31 days...

 

These are all the creative blocks every one made. Here is my original instruction post.