One down...one to go!

I finished my Color Pallet Challenge little quilt last night and got the binding sewn on today!

Finished it is about 11.5 inches.  I think this is the smallest quilt I have ever made.  I thought that having such small paper pieced blocks would make this overly challenging, but I was pleasantly surprised that it didn't turn out being overly difficult.  The hardest part was just the areas where the blocks came together to lie flat.  There's one area where there is about 10 layers of fabric coming together, but it lays fairly flat.  I didn't do much quilting because of the amount of fabric layers, just some simple shadow quilting around the pinwheels and stitching in ditch around the borders.

It has already found a home on one of my tables in the living room. I like that it adds color to the table where I keep my Delft pottery from Holland.

For those of you who haven't read my previous posts on this particular quilt, it is part of the Color Palate Challenge that Judy Laquidara and Vicki Welsh are sponsoring.  You can read more about this months color palate and the challenge here.  I can't wait to see what next months palate will be.  I have a feeling I will be sewing a lot of little quilts this year!

I'm still working on this month's UFO, but getting close to getting it done (which is good because I'm almost out of time!)

Color Challenge Blocks

I said I would post when I had a few more of blocks done!  I'm over halfway done with them, so I figured it was time to post.

The top row is together.  I still have to do the last four blocks for the bottom row.  When finished you should see the blue star in the middle and the 4 pinwheels surrounding it.

I'm paper piecing them together and each pieced block is 2 inches finished (each pinwheel is 4"), so in total this will measure 8" square finished.  I am learning a lot, like how hard it is to get seams straight when the dark blue piece is only 1/4" wide and where the blocks come together there must be 8 or 10 layers of fabric.  Things aren't completely straight or lined up, which is even more apparent in this photo, but this was a learning piece, so I'm trying not to stress about it.  We all have to learn somehow, right?

The inspiration for the blocks came from the book Showstopping Quilts to Foundation Piece by Tricia Lund and Judy Pollard.  This is the design in the book.

In the book, the finished blocks are suppose to be 8" inches and I didn't have that much fabric or want something that big, so I drew it into EQ6 and played around with until it fit the color profile and size I wanted.

I didn't expect the background fabric to stand out so much, but I'm chalking that one up to a lesson in value.  I think the inner pinwheels should have had a darker value in order to stand out.  They are both medium fabrics and almost seem to get a little lost on the background fabric.  It's coming along though!