Unpicking Flowers

When yellow was the color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge I didn't have many yellow scraps so I combined them with orange and red to make some crumb blocks which then, when combined with some pink, turned into bow tie blocks and then the whole thing turned into a quilt top. 

I decided to free motion quilt some five petaled  flowers on my plain Jane DSM and when I got about 3/4 of the way finished I happened to notice I had horribly (and I mean horribly) bunched up the backing and quilted over it on about 1/4 of the quilt.  It was a yucky mess so I threw it into a pile to linger which is where it's been since about June.  Since it was a crumb quilt and going to be a donation quilt I didn't want to take the time to rip it all out. I thought the whole mess would probably stay a UFO forever. 

Then I remembered I had a four hour car trip to and from my niece's wedding Labor Day weekend. So, the seam ripper and quilt went with me.  It took the whole trip there and half the trip back - 6 hours of  UNPICKING FLOWERS. 

I'm not sure I ever want to do that again.  

But anyway, now the quilt is finished (well, it's not really finished until it is washed) and I kind of like it even though  I would never list pink, yellow or orange as a favorite color. 

This quilt has a lot of fun built in...cats and gingerbread boys peeking at you...

 ...Spiderman hanging out and where else will you find taco chips and sunflowers next to each other?

And here's another kitty that wants to play and, look!....there's Spiderman again.  Who would think he would show up in a predominately pink quilt? 

This quilt will go to Wrap a Smile  - quilts for kids undergoing cleft lip/cleft palate surgery. 

I'm linking to:

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Finish it Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts. 

Firewheels - Warning...Put on the Sunglasses!

Firewheels #2, #3 and #4.   16 inch blocks. Pattern from Quilter's Cache.  Feeling wild and using up some bright Kaffe Fassetts, Philip Jacobs, etc. from my stash in colors pink, yellow, orange.  I can't put them all together on a design wall along with Firewheel #1 because my design wall is my cutting board propped up on the wall with some extra batting on it.  One Firewheel is about all that fits on it for picture taking.  But, if you want to see some actual design walls full of inspiration visit Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times.