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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.

My original quilt with 1" wide strips.
Isabelle's 1/8" wide strips.

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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One of the last things on my to do list before QuiltCon was to make a selvage name tag. (Because I've been admiring all the people making name tags.) The fabric was sitting on my cutting table. I knew I didn't have much time if I was going to participate in this week's Project QUILTING challenge. I was considering another mug rug. But then I realized that the Hourglass challenge theme would work with my name tag. Twofer!

So here's my little name tag, approximately 1"x3" finished with tiny little hourglass blocks on each end.

Thanks for visiting! I'm linking up on Kim's blog for the Project QUILTING Hourglass challenge. Lots of time left to still participate this week. Next challenge drops on March 3 when I'm the Ultimate Weekly Sponsor! I hope you'll join us.

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This week's Project QUILTING challenge is Inside Out.

I took inspiration from my project for the last challenge for this week's project. I opted for making units in a variety of sizes and added triangles to the corners with selvage exposed. The selvage is my inside on the outside of my quilt.

I took my final stitch at 2:20am Sunday morning. My mini quilt is 17.25" x 20.5", quilted with graffiti quilting in two colors of Aurifil 50 wt, #4093 Jade and #2560 Iris.

Thanks for visiting! I'm linking up on Kim's blog for the Project QUILTING Inside Out challenge. Congratulations to everyone else who participated in the challenge this week. Next challenge drops on February 18th. I hope you'll join us.