Color my world — your finish here

[HuiminGong]

Thanks very much for this beautiful BOM!
I am very late but have finally finished the top The Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Shanghai/China is used in one of the corners.

[Lori]

Love the fussy cutting!

[Beth B.]

A whole year late, but finally finished! This was a fabulous BOM, and I really enjoyed all the beautiful quilts that were posted by everyone who participated, and the wonderful videos and tips from Barbara. I was keeping up really well through the inner circle, but got a bit kerflauffled picking out colors for my outer circle of large buildings, so I stepped away to work on other projects and give my mind a rest. Well, one year latter, I decided I really needed to get going, so I pinned swatches to my design wall representing the main building color and got sewing. Along the way, I probably changed my fabric choice at least 30% of the time, and plenty of the finished blocks found their way to new locations as they were all sewn together, but I finally finished the outer circle in 2 months. Then it took time to get into the LAQ queue, but it was totally worth the wait! Louise Klare of K7 Quilting did an amazing job, and even quilted several Easter eggs in my houses for me to discover. My binding caused another small delay as I waited for the Kaffe Fassett 85 and Fabulous collection to be released and arrive at my LQS.. I think it was worth all the delays to be able to pick the perfect binding. LOVED this adventure!

the vibrant colors in this quilt just don’t show up in my picture. Probably over 300 different Kaffe Fassett Collective fabrics were used in this project. Totally validates the reason for a stash!

[Barbara B.]

Spectacular, Beth. Lots to love here but I think my favorite is your Compass center!

[Lori]

Love the quilting!

[Lori]

Finally finished after two years and a couple months! Somehow I forgot to download the pattern for the small houses in the city, so I drafted my own. One is loosely based on my mom's home. I also changed the skyscrapers to buildings significant to my family. I kept Big Ben, adding the Macau Tower, the Shuntak Center in Hong Kong, and the Sail Building in Haifa, Israel. Then I embroidered the building numbers/names of places we lived on buildings near the skyscrapers. It needs some serious blocking, which I will do whenever I can find a space large enough that won't be walked on by dogs or people. Still, I'm very happy with how it turned out. I plan to hang it in my office.

[Elenaquilts]

I love the customization you’ve done. Your fabric choices and the quilting are great!

[Pamela F.]

I’m about two years behind on this project, however, when I first saw this, it was available as a block of the month pattern. That was my first year of quilting, and I finally got around to braving the paper piecing. I love it.
I tried to create my own paper, piecing block only on the tower, and I created the Seattle space needle. To me it looks a bit like a casserole on stilts. I have ever I’m gonna keep it as it was my first try at creating my own paper piecing pattern.

[Paige]

Done! Make sure you zoom in to see the window friends!

[Helen W.]

Paige, The quilt is wonderful, but the animals in all the windows is the best. Great idea but I bet it took a bit of time
to fussy cut that many cute dogs and cats. That one empty window in the upper left could use a cute animal or sea
gull or something. Great job. Thanks for taking the time to post it. HelenW

[bpalluzi]

I finally finished my quilt. It took 2 1/2 years but I really love it. I enjoyed quilting it. I did a lot of detail which is why it took so long. It was worth it. Now it is hanging in a place of honor over our staircase. My wonderful husband found a way to do it. Every time I pass it I can't believe it is finally finished and how good it looks. Thanks for all your help Barbara. I definitely learned a lot of new skills and am much more confident.
Beth Palluzi

[Barbara B.]

Wonderful, Beth! Thank you for sharing. So good you can see it every day.

[Tiny P.]

My color my world is finally finished. I quilted it by hand. I'm very happy with it, and just in time so that I can start the block of the month for 2024

[Helen W.]

Tiny P. When you quilt by hand do you a hoop? Your quilt turned out wonderful.
HelenW

[Tiny P.]

Yes I use a hope.

[Wendy]

So happy to have this finished and hanging on a wall in my new townhome in Vermont! Thank you to Barbara for all your support during the making of this quilt! Thank you to Louise of Burlington Electric Quilters in Massachusetts for this beautiful edge to edge design (and for renting me time on your longarm)!

[Barbara B.]

Great job, Wendy! I know you are happy to have this done and on display.

[Kruf22350]

I am late to the party, but I am happy to say it is a bound and hung!

[sklabq]

I finally finished my version of Color My World, I'm calling it Color My World, My Way. The top was finished in summer 2024 but it took me two years to have the confidence to quilt it. My background fabric was stark white with roads, I dyed 5 yards of it with tea to create the off-white background you see here. I modified the trees to have more than one shape, with each shape using the same fabric. I also chose to create my own corner blocks as I thought the quilt needed more of our natural world, not only man-made structures. My corner blocks are mountains and rivers, desert, ocean and farmland. The border design (I think of it as rooftops from the inner rings of small houses) was initially created by my friend Tracy H for her version of this quilt. I borrowed her idea (with permission) for my quilt. My border is 4" finished and I really think it works well. Not sure why my photo is sideways.