2013 Finish-A-Long: Q4 Finishes

Was I ever surprised when I sorted through the Finish-A-Long flickr group last week and realized that I have finished 28(!) projects with the FAL since it started 2 years ago! See what a good encouragement it is!? So here's my finishes for 2013 Quarter 4:

This little block was a recreation of that made for my Mango quilt back in 2011. Yeah, I meant to create a tutorial long before now, but you know how it goes . . . 

{click for pdf tutorial & templates}

Anyway, I made a few more blocks and came up with a fun mini just to show another way the block could be used. I had so much fun quilting this up, and now it's hanging on my mini wall!

(Beware: you'll be seeing the Mango block again in one of next quarter's projects too.)

Next up was the "For Pleat's Sake!" Tote Bag by U-handbag. I had my fabric all cut . . .

And before I knew it, I had a cool bag that I've used every day since!

When I put this piece of crazy-piecing on my FAL list, Crazy Rainbow was just a vision in my mind as my project for the Mini Quilt Swap sponsored by schnitzel & boo.

I was a little obsessive with the crazy-piecing, and pretty much covered my entire design board with it. But I was indeed able to create exactly what I had in mind. Seriously, this mini was just SO much fun to create!

And lastly was a carryover from last quarter - the Polaroid blocks that I got in the *Picture-Perfect* Polaroid Block Swap last year and then had the Always Bee Learning Bee put together for me into blocks. Gee whiz, I usually don't need that much help!

But a bit of time between Christmas and New Year's and I was finally able to finish "Snapshots" just before year's end.

Whew. List complete.

Linking up with Leanne/shecanquilt and the Finish-A-Long 2013 Q4 linkup.