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What is Ombré? Mirriam-Webster says "having colors or tones that shade into each other."

I love a color challenge and this one could be implemented two ways (or maybe more!?). We could use ombré fabric in our design or we could build a palette that was an ombre of color. Somehow we had to include an ombré or a gradient. I chose to build two ombre palettes in pinks and oranges and work them together into a quilt.

Pinks: Kona Bourdeaux, Cerise, Bright Pink*, Dragon Fruit*, Sassy Pink*, and Carnation.

Oranges/Yellows: Kona Flame, Torch, Clementine, Goldfish, Cheddar, and what I'm calling "Not Cheddar" but I have no idea what it actually is. (It was labeled Cheddar, but it clearly isn't.)

*these weren't marked, so I did my best to map them to the Kona color card for identification.

I created a mockup in Adobe Indesign to audition the color placement and make sure I liked my two gradients together. (Thanks to Ellyn for the idea to use Courthouse steps as my design inspiration.)

I quilted with walking foot quilting in two colors, Aurifil 50wt Baby Pink (#2423) and Light Lemon (#2110). It's bound in Kona Burgundy and finished at 19" x 21".

Thanks for visiting! I'm linking up on Kim's blog for the Project QUILTING Ombré challenge. Congratulations to everyone else who participated in the challenge this week. Next challenge drops on February 2nd.

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Thanks for joining me for TGIFF (Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday). I am happy to be hosting and chose to finish a little pile of quilts for this post.

My friend Isabelle pieced an AMAZING quilt for the 2024 QuiltCon Fabric Challenge using all 1/8" finished strips. When I was teaching an improv workshop in the middle of 2024 using slice and insert with strip sets (photo below left) I asked Isabelle if I could have a piece of her leftover quilt top (photo below right). (She had mentioned that she trimmed it down, so I knew she had a remnant piece.) I used her amazing quilt top to make tiny little strips to insert into squares of five of the challenge fabrics.

I love the fabric challenge category of QuiltCon to see what folks all do with the same palette. This palette of Windham Artisan Cottons was chosen by Jacquie Gering: White/Aqua, Grape/Dark Pink, Red/Royal, Turquoise/Copper, Aqua/Blue, and Apple Green/Chartreuse.

I chose thread to coordinate with each solid fabric, 50 wt Aurifil in Medium Purple (#2545), Wedgewood (#4140), Light Leaf Green (#1147), Magenta (#2535), and Medium Teal (#1125). And I cut up remnants of my strip sets for the back of the coasters. Once I quilted the quilt top to the batting I trimmed the quilted top and backing to 5" squares, sewed around, turned right side out, and finished. (Check back soon for a tutorial of my full process for finishing my coasters.)

Here's the finished set of five 4 1/2" coasters.

And my strips on the back!

What have you finished lately? I look forward to seeing what you link up below. Thanks for visiting.

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It's my 11 year blogiversary! Eleven years ago today I put out my first blog post. I started out sharing about a wider variety of crafty and creative projects, not just quilts. In the early years I started quilting more and shifted to that being the primary focus of my blog, and in 2016 or 2017 moved to my own domain where I am now at www.sarahgoerquilts.com. I've been teaching improv piecing to quilt guilds since 2017.

2024 was a slow year on the Sarah Goer Quilts blog, but I'm happy to be back in the swing of things. My blog and my newsletter will be my biggest focus for staying in touch this year. I'm hoping to have more finished projects to share and more behind the scenes and process photos to share with you.

The best way to make sure you don't miss what's going on here is to receive my newsletter. I will always include links to recent blog posts as well as information about what I'm up to and where I'll be teaching. I'll also link to color and design inspiration from around the web. Signup for the Sarah Goer Quilts newsletter here.

Here's a peek at what's on my design wall this week. Since I'm nearly done with my first improv house quilt top, I've started a second color way with this first house block. The other two bits at the top are random pieces from previous samples/challenges. And the rest of the blocks are my paper pieced trinket blocks (pattern by Alison Glass) set into 10 1/2" squares with Alison Glass sunprints. This project is one of the six projects that I selected for a 2025 UFO challenge that I'm participating in. There are 40 blocks total. 26 are on the design wall and the other 14 have the borders cut out and ready to piece. Hoping to make this into a finished quilt top soon!

Thanks for being here.