The Color Quilt Top

I finished!  My sewing goal for the weekend was to finish up this quilt top.  It only took one late night.  The finished size is 70" x 90".  I used 1328 squares (2.5" cut).  That comes out to 332 charms.  So when people think I'm crazy for wanting to run a huge charm swap, this is why.  I'm just about out of charms.  And yes, I do have an idea for what I'm going to do with the next batch.

My original plan was just to slice off the points of all the outer squares, but I just couldn't stand to do that.  I came up with this idea for the border instead.  I love the look of the pinked edges of the quilt.

The design process was a lot of fun, despite the fact that this quilt took over my wall for close to two months.

At this point it became too hard to design it behind our elliptical trainer so I flipped the entire quilt around to finish the design.  This is our only free wall in the house that I can use as my design wall, so I make it work. 

I now have a naked design wall again.  Our office/sewing room looks quite boring without all the color on the wall.  Now onto the quilt back.  I need to fill that design wall up again.