Taking a wrong turn

Hi all! So, here we are in the middle of July. How do we feel about this? I feel like I lost about four months somewhere along the line, but at the same time I feel like the last couple of months have been as long as a couple of years. Anyone else feel the same way? On the upside, though, and as a direct effect of being cooped up for so long, I have discovered heirloom tomatoes, and now I never want to eat any other kind. This will undoubtedly make the squirrels quite happy, as I suspect they have their eyes on the tomatoes I'm growing on the patio. Is there anything fun that you've discovered during quarantine? Would I like it?

Well, here's one thing I really like, and one goal I've actually met (let's not talk about my other goals...) I finished off a quilt this week! Yay me!

I call this one Wrong Turns. See if you can guess why.  This is a smallish quilt that I made from re-purposed gigantic half-square triangles that I started for a mystery quilt from Alycia.  I didn't finish the mystery, but I did get to use the hsts in this comfort quilt.

I love the yellows in this quilt! I'm not sure that it comes through the best in these pictures, because it was pretty cloudy-- or maybe it was just haze from the heat-- but the yellows are quite cheery. I do love yellow in almost all its shades. Even my living room walls have a tint of yellow to them.  Anyway...I made this top a few months ago when I had a small tantrum in the sewing room, so I'm thrilled that it turned out okay.

Here's why I call this one Wrong Turns. See the stitching patterns there? I wanted to do a square spiral, and I wanted it to line up with the blue flying geese that are at the left and right edges of the quilt. So I started the spiral in the center of the quilt, like ya should, and it went fine until I realized that I was going the wrong way to get things to line up the way I wanted them to. So I just tied everything off and started going in the right direction on the next "round." Only it wasn't the right way! Instead of stopping again, I just went with it.  Altogether I'm pretty happy with the way that it turned out, even if it's "wrong."

For the backing I used a length of green polka dot, and to make it wide enough I used a strip of blue inserted off center.  The binding is from the binding basket, leftover from a quilt backing. I make bindings from the cutoffs from trimming the quilt after quilting, and it has saved my bacon more than once.

This quilt is destined for donation, though I'm not sure where. I had intended it to be for the Hands to Help challenge, but that ship has sailed. I imagine they would still take a donation, though, don't you? The whole time I was quilting it I was thinking of a teenage girl, and I can see it wrapped around a teenager, maybe while watching a movie. Kind of weird, I know, but sometimes I need to remember why I've got a quilt on my lap when it's 90 degrees outside.

So, there we are, a finished, happy quilt! I'm so glad to have this done and ready to go off somewhere. It makes me feel very virtuous, watching the number of tops in the closet dwindle.  Don't worry, though, there are plenty still there! I may feel very virtuous, but the tops in the closet would seem to say otherwise.

Hope everyone has a very good weekend. As I have met almost none of my home improvement goals, I'm planning to paint a bedroom this weekend. I understand that it's going to be something like 98 degrees, so a good time to stay in the air conditioning. There may be some ice cream if I finish the bedroom, so cross your fingers!

Sharing at Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Finished or Not Friday, Brag about your Beauties, and QPA on Sunday.