total tedium is DONE

Another UFO is done! Ahhhhh, the feeling of accomplishment!
This one started out nice, I saw the pattern and thought this would be different from anything I have done. I bought a gorgeous bunch of Free Spirit solids in a cool color family.
I thought this would be a fun quilt to piece. Cutting out all the pieces. Chain piecing the small squares. So many small squares. That are then sewn together with other squares into seeming random blocks.

The bloom was off this rose very early. The small pieces were fun at first, then they just seemed to go on forever. And piecing the blocks from the random squares was not as easy as I had hoped. What began ans tiny details, became totally tedious.

I started this in March and finally finished it this week. For months, the stacks of squares laid on a shelf under my cutting table, mocking me as I cut other projects. I had to quiet their voices.

Total Tedium 54" square

But I realize this is part of the creative process and part of my quilting journey. I am not going to love every pattern I try, but hopefully I will learn something or improve my technique along the way.

The finished quilt is quite striking. I FMQ-ed it in an interlocking squares stipple. It seems to complement the quilt. And while I did not enjoy the process I am pleased with the quilt. And the Tula Pink Parisville I used on the back is sublimely gorgeous!