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Friday, October 17, 2014

"you can't rush art" quilt finished!

Welcome to finish it up Friday!

I finished my quilt! This one took me on quite a journey. It feels so personal and like such a milestone for reasons I can't express. I will say, however, that I am absolutely pleased with how it turned out. I think the amount of photos to follow prove that. :)


 




 

 
The top is made up of 100% scraps. Mainly Kona cottons, but several other brands make an appearance including a few shot cottons and a few Oakshott scraps.
Spiral quilting was done in a light gray Aurifil thread (color 2600).
Binding is Kona Pepper.
Finished size approximately 70" x 90".
Heavily inspired by Gee's Bend quilts. (Obviously, right?)

This is scrap project #90/101!

Now it's your turn! Please link up your finishes for the week. Thank you for joining me for finish it up Friday!

123 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! I love the backing you made for it and the black binding.

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  2. Oh My Gosh!!! I just LOVE it!!!

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  3. Anonymous9:08 AM

    What a beautiful and bright quilt, your quilting is perfect too. Thank you for hosting this link party every week.
    Carole @ From My Carolina Home

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  4. Gorgeous!!! And I can't imagine how much time it must have took to do the spiral quilting on that big of a quilt! It's amazing!!!

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  5. AMAZING! I love the color...lots of color!

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  6. Not only the color but the quilting is fab as well!

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  7. Love this quilt. I am so inspired to use up all those scraps. Thanks to you i keep them all now. And the spiral quilting is perfect for this quilt.

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  8. Oh my goodness, that spiral quilting is amazing!! What a bear that must have been finagling all of that quilt in your machine. You go girl!!! What a stunning finish!!

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  9. I love how bright and cheery this is. And also the little bit of "text print" is a fun touch.

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  10. This quilt is SO beautiful! Love love love it!

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  11. Your quilt is fabulous!! I have a maybe silly question though, how do you spiral quilt a quilt that large?

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  12. The improv piecing is amazing and the spiral quilting is a perfect finish to a beautiful quilt!

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  13. Amazing and beautiful!!!

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  14. This is ABSOLUTELY gorgeous!!!! I loved seeing this project work along throughout the last few weeks...My favorite thing is that each block is so different...and they just all mesh together so well! HOW DO YOU DO IT????
    I am envious of your Spiral quilting...It looks perfect!!!
    NICE FINISH!!!

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  15. Absolutely stunning!!

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  16. this is just so fabulous!!!! great inspiration!

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  17. Stunning, bold, looks like stained glass ... love it!

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  18. This is a gorgeous quilt! The colors are so vibrant!

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  19. What is the beautiful text fabric? Love it.

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  20. This is so pretty. I have a bunch of kona scraps. You have inspired me to try to scrap them together.

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  21. Oh! my goodness! It is gorgeous! Wow, got that flimsy done so fast. LOVE the black binding. Ok confession time - I wasn't loving this thing as just a top, but wow, now it is a beaut! :) silly me...

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  22. I still just want to ask the preverbial question HOW DO YOU DO IT??? but then you've already tried to answer that for all of us, but I'm still so amazed. I've been sick this week and have only dreamed abt. my projects.

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  23. okay, i am totally jealous of that gorgeous quilt!!! i just love it! ;p

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  24. You've sewn a fantastic happy quilt !! Hug Bambi

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  25. oh I love this! Very nice. What a great use of scraps!

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  26. I love this quilt! My last two quilts have been solids and I'm thinking of making 2014 the year of solids. They are just so much fun to play with.

    I used Kona Pepper in the quilt I am finishing now and just love that shade. It's not grey and it's not black.

    Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful quilt Amanda Jean!

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  27. How intense! That spiral quilting.... is brilliant! And the pepper binding perfectly frames all that glorious colour. Thanks for sharing all those yummy pictures!

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  28. Inspiring! Thanks for sharing.

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  29. Absolutely beautiful.

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  30. oh my this is awesome! Absolutely gorgeous!

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  31. Beautiful colors! What a happy quilt!

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  32. That is one gorgeous quilt! Love the effect of the variety of solids and the quilting too.

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  33. This quilt is amazing and I don't think it could have turned out better if every piece had been planned and plotted.

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  34. Spectacular! Love it!
    I am going to try your circular quilting method soon :)

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  35. Wow. Really great. Starting mine today!

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  36. Such a gorgeous quilt - and what a great way to use the IKEA fabric on the back. It's my absolute favorite fabric they make, but I'm always running out - this way I can stretch it further!! I really need to make one of these, too - I've got lots of solid scraps!! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  37. Oh my, this is soooo gorgeous. What a finish! Just flipped through the newest Keepsake Quilting catalog and was happy to see "your page". That's awesome! Happy TGIF & cheers!

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  38. Anonymous12:26 PM

    Absolutely fabulous.

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  39. She's a beauty, my friend! :)

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  40. Absolutely beautiful!!

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  41. What a gorgeous quilt! I love the quilting, the colors, the piecing...everything is spectacular. Congrats on finishing it...you'll have sweet dreams under this one for sure.
    Debbie
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  42. lovely. so vibrant and friendly. Do you mark your spirals before you start? How do you space them? I have a Juki, but my walking foot doesn't have that measuring thingy.

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  43. Anonymous1:46 PM

    This quilt is simply amazing! Wow!

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  44. Holy cow!!! This is just beautiful. The Gee's Bend ladies would love it! Nicely done....

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  45. Beautiful quilt - they just get better and better!!

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  46. Wow. This is stunning. Great work!

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  47. Wow. This is stunning. Great work!

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  48. It's epic! What an amazing scrap quilt. And number 90 - it'll be quite a party at your house at number 101, not long to go!

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  49. What an awesome quilt! I was in awe of its beauty and then looked closer and realized that the quilting was done in a spiral. It is truly art! Thank you for sharing and motivating me to try spiral quilting on something larger than 20" square.

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  50. I love your quilt!!! Great job!! I also love your blog. Thanks so much for sharing!

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  51. Oh Amanda Jean, I love it!! I wish I had enough solids to make something like that. Wonderful wonderful job. Love the spiral quilting.

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  52. What an amazing accomplishment. This quilt is beautiful. Congratulations, Amanda Jean!

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  53. absolutely stunning!!!!!

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  54. wow wow wow wow wow!!

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  55. It is just stunningly gorgeous - I love the effect you get from using all solids, it's just incredible :)

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  56. I've never been much into improv piecing but this quilt is absolutely stunning! The color combo does it.

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  57. Truly amazing quilt, absolutely gorgeous! You should be very proud!

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  58. Love the colors and that spiral quilting.

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  60. Wow, stunning! I love all that gorgeous color, the improv blocks and the way you used different size blocks. It reminds me of the work of my quilting idol, Gwen Marston. I've been saving all my solid scraps to make one like this. Yours is beautiful.

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  61. Loving it! Love it love it love it!

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  62. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! A picture is worth a thousand words so all of these photos add up to lots of beautiful superlatives!!!

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  63. making an all solids quilt is on my list to do. This is gorgeous!!! the quilting is perfect too!!!!

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  64. Absolutely A++ quilt!! Love the spiral, the whole quilt is fantastic!

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  65. Wow what an amazing scrap basket you must have!! Love all the colour in your quilt :)

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  66. Love the spiral quilting on the log cabin blocks. Very eye-catching! It does indeed have a bit if Gee's Bend flavor!

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  67. Your quilt is just beautiful! I haven't made a quilt exclusively out of solids, but now I think I have to!

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  68. Your gorgeous photos say it all!!!! I can't believe you are almost to 101 scrappy projects. Love this quilt so much with its vibrant colors, pieced back and spiral quilting. Incredibly beautiful!

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  69. Anonymous7:59 PM

    This quilt it awesome! Love it!

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  70. That is an absolutely gorgeous quilt and your quilting is phenomenal!

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  71. wowsers! YOu did it again.

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  72. Amanda! I love, love, love this quilt! Feels like forever since I read a quilt blog, but so glad I popped in today and saw this beauty posted. Congrats on such a fun finish. Hope you are doing so well. Sending a hug from the Big Apple!!!

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  73. Oh so gorgeous! You must be so pleased with this!And you are getting SEW close to that 101st scrap project aren't you!!!

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  74. You spiral quilted it! It must have taken you AGES!!! I absolutely love it. I'm going to have to think less about the potential trickiness in shifting a large quilt around and spiral quilt a top that shouldn't settle for anything less.

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  75. This quilt is fabulous!!! Love the spiral quilting too.

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  76. Wowzer! It's gorgeous ~ love the colors and especially the quilting!

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  77. those little strips of tiny scraps totally make my heart skip a beat! I love you! this is gorgeous and if I had seen it just out in the wild I think I would have known it was yours. Your artistic voice is so clear!

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  78. As I viewed the pictures, I must have said Wow like 5 times. I love that it's mostly made from solids. Color contrasting with other solid colors like new crayons fresh from the box.

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  79. Oh so pretty. All scraps is amazing. I don't have that many solid scraps at all. This is beautiful! I love the light when you were taking the photos. Morning or evening?

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  80. No words - just - wow!

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  81. I have no solids in my stash, scraps or whole, because I've always found them boring, but no longer. Your quilt is earth shaking for me--I love the piecing, the colors, and the spiral quilting. Brava!

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  82. Beautiful!! Great job! Can't say enough awesome things about this stunning piece of gorgeousness. ;) And I think I will never tire of circle and or spiral quilting. I have two quilts that I spiral quilted and I just love them. I hated to give them away. lol The next one will be mine! All mine! Now I sound just plain seflish. lol But, I digress.....you have every right to be proud of your quilt.

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  83. All your hard work, talent and patience has paid off - fandabbylicious indeed :)

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  84. This qualifies as a prize winning quilt. Sit back and smugly admire your work. Actually, sit under your quilt and admire. That way you know where it is. Someone might want to abscond with it when you are not looking. Someone like me.

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  85. Anonymous7:27 AM

    Beautiful - a true inspiration for me to start working with more solids - thank you!

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  86. You've outdone yourself - very cool.

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  87. Love the quilt and your photography - really shows off all those fab colours!

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  88. This just might be your most awesome quilt ever!

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  89. This is amazing. Breathtaking. I love it!!

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  90. LOVE IT!!! The spiral quilting is perfect and inspiring me as well since the machine quilting is the part I shy away from. As always, thanks for sharing more inspiring work.

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  91. This is so Gwen Marston, one of my favorite quilters! She, too, has been inspired by Gee's Bend.

    http://www.gwenmarston.com/

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  92. This quilt is so amazing! So beautiful. I cannot tell you enough how inspired this makes me. Thank you.

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  93. Anonymous11:25 AM

    Love, love, love this quilt! I do have one question...can you tell me where you got the fabric with the writing on it (on the back)?

    Thanks, Sharon

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  94. Anonymous11:25 AM

    Love, love, love this quilt! I do have one question...can you tell me where you got the fabric with the writing on it (on the back)?

    Thanks, Sharon

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  95. Picture number 1. first I gasped then I said "That is soooo nice!". N

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  96. Just beautiful! You're color sense and quiltmaking skills know no limits. Lovely work, Amanda!

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  97. Gorgeous quilt. Love the colors, the different sized blocks, and the quilting.

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  98. Gorgeous!!! I love everything about this quilt!

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  99. just LOVE this quilt - I'm pretty sure I say that about all your quilts but this one is so special and I love the spiral quilting on it ! fabulous :)

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  100. What a stunner! All those bright solids are so crisp in your amazing blocks. Congrats!

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  101. Love, love this one. Oh my- what an inspiration!

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  102. Wonderful quilt. Love the front, love the back. Can't believe you spiral quilted it ... that's hard! ... and I mean physically hard!! Makes my shoulders ache to think about it.

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  103. So clean and crisp! I do love solids, and this proves that you don't need a lot of prints to make a beautiful quilt.

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  104. You have seriously knocked my socks off with this one. Your talent and inspiration are never ending.

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  105. Love the use of colour

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  106. ~gasp~ even the back is adorbs :) Good job!!!

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  107. GOREGOUS -- and #90 of your scrap projects! What an accomplishment. Thanks for sharing them with us.

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  108. So, so, inexpressibly beautiful. I have almost no solids in my stash, let alone enough to make a quilt from them! But I'll have some after I'm done with birch trees! I'm demoted to make a black and white version? Maybe heavily black and white, but still some color... Anyway, I love your inspiration!

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  109. Amazing! Lovely work.

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  110. Awesome quilt, love the colors!

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  111. BEAUTIFUL Crazy Mom!!!

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  112. Wow. It's so stunning. This may be my fav of your quilts!

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  113. Was wondering if you would share some of the process of making this quilt.....

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  114. This Quilt andere the quilting is just gorgeous

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  115. This quilt is awesome and beautiful to me! Your spiral quilt is its crowning glory. Thank you for sharing this lovely accomplishment with us.

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  116. This is an amazingly beautiful quilt. I am a big fan of the Gees Bend quilts and was fortunate to see some of them at an exhibition in Milwaukee. You really evoke the spirit of those quilts in your design and the fact that you used only scraps. Fabulous job with the quilting as well. Thanks for continuing to inspire me.

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  117. This is my favorite thing you've ever made, and I have loved SO many of the things you've made that is really saying something! Such beautiful work - it just makes me happy to look at it :-)

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  118. Just love your quilt. Meg

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