flowering snowball finished top!

So.

I told you the other day

that whenever I had a moment, I sewed.

And ya'll probably thought I was finishing up Jordan's quilt.

But I wasn't.

I was making a new one!

I really wanted a 'palette cleanser'

after that quilt.

Don't get me wrong,

I loved making it,

but as I've said before,

it's a little stressful to sew to other people's specifications.

I don't want to mess up their vision for their quilt.

I've had a few small projects sprinkled in here and there,

(Like Milo's and Hadley's quilts, oh, and Brycen's quilt, 

among other things)

but I started Faith and Freedom last January,

which was a pretty intensive quilt,

and as soon as I finished it,

I turned my attention to On the Wild Side,

and as soon as that was finished,

I immediately got going on Stars for a Star.

So you see,

 I was really ready for a fun project that didn't require a ton of thought.

I've wanted to make a flowering snowball quilt

ever since I saw Mary's over 2 years ago.

It was time.

I cut all of the white fabrics 

I needed 2 weeks ago, 

after I'd run out of thread

6 hours away from finishing the quilting on (swoony) Stars for a Star.

But then
I didn't get going on the colored fabrics,

because I sorta panicked.

A flowering snowball is nothing but curves.

And the only curves I've sewn,

beside in garment sewing

(which I don't do a ton of

and half of what I do sew - is sleeveless)

and my first foray into pattern testing.

The other thing that held me back was

the fabric mess.

I knew I wanted to use a ton of different fabrics,

and that was going to create quite a mess.

Wednesday,

I decided to sew a test block,

just to see just how hard it was going to be.

And you know what? It wasn't hard at all!

And I suddenly wanted to start on my quilt immediately!

(by then, Jordan's quilt was finished

except for hand-sewing the binding down)

But I still had 224 pieces of fabric to cut.

Thursday morning,

after coffee,

I started going through fabric.

I went through one drawer, or  bag, or a basket at a time,

and cut 1 piece

from every fabric that I chose,

then immediately folded it back up.

Once all fabrics were cut from each drawer, bag, or basket

(my fabric is stored all over the place!)

I returned all of the folded pieces.

It took the entire day,

between school

and chores

and cleaning up after myself,

but by bedtime,

I had all of my fabric cut

and put away!

This is getting too long.

The Reader's Digest version of the rest is -

I made a quilt top in less than a week.

1 set of templates

504 pieces

279 different fabrics
4 hrs of seam ripping (it. was. ridiculous.)

1 - 63"x72" quilt top
6 days.

😊

linking up with Beth at Cooking up Quilts for Main Crush Monday
and Amanda Jean.