Technicolor Galaxy all done and 2016 Cloud 9 New Block hop

It is done! I can't believe it!

This was more work than I had expected. There were times that I did not feel like working on it anymore, but the curiosity and excitement of seeing it done won over those times. I wanted to practice FMQ with this project. I believe that I got a lot better on FMQ after quilting all this. There are a lot of patchwork and quilting techniques in there, such as improv, bias tape appliqué, foundation paper piecing, piece-liqué circle, hexies, raw-edge appliqué, folded edge appliqué, hand-quilting, straight line quilting, but mostly free motion quilting. All this while doing the quilt-as you-go technique.

Here are a few more things that I've learned:

1) Trying something challenging is ALWAYS rewarding at the end

2) Getting out of my comfort zone is also rewarding

3) I should make more rainbow quilts -but probably won't

4) Quilt-as-you-go is great, but not my thing (still, I'm so glad I've done it)

5) I might never sign up for a year long project (that actually took almost two - a year and nine months to be precise). The amount of time I've put on this is unbelievable. Probably hundreds of hours and with that comes a struggle to power through but also a lot of love and appreciation.

I will be honest, when I signed up for this, the design wasn't my type. I thought it was cool, but it wasn't my thing. I wanted to try it anyway because I like to learn new techniques and see how other people do things differently from me, which still means learning to me. In the end though, I really loved every piece of this. I am glad I muted the center points, focusing on the circles of this design. It is a lot more ME this way.

All I can say is thank you Alyssa (pileofabric)! This was crazy, wild and amazing!

Worthy for sure!