Garden Party Is Finished! -- 2020 RSC Wrap Up

This week I finished everything on my Garden Party quilt!  I am in love with this quilt.  It may be my all-time favorite quilt that I have completed.

Garden Party is a pattern by Bonnie Hunter.  Oh I love it!  It was raining when I took the photos.  It was Christmas eve.  I quickly rolled it and shoved it into two grocery bags.  I wrote a quick note from Santa and put it on my friend's porch.  I have been working on this quilt making blocks in the colors of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) for a few years.  It all started during a red month and I made little red 9-patches and made some blocks as leader/ender projects.  So MANY of the scraps in this quilt were given to me in little bags that were left on my porch by the same friend that I gifted it.  

I backed it with a blue fabric from my stash.  I almost had enough.  You can see I used a different piece of fabric at the top.  I made this quilt a little bigger than Bonnie's original pattern.  The quilt is square.  It can be put on the bed any way.  I trimmed it so that it did not cut off the points on the edge.  It is not perfectly square.  One corner I had to sacrifice a few points.  BUT I love it and it is BEAUTIFUL.  

My friend didn't notice me sneaking into her driveway.  She noticed it late on Christmas eve when she looked out side to watch the start of the snow.  A few hours after I finished it and took this photo the rain had turned to snow. By Christmas morning we had about 8" of beautiful, fresh snow.  It was definitely a white Christmas.

I'm linking up at Elm Street Quilts because it was my goal this month to finish this quilt.  Woohoo!

I'm linking up with Angela at SoScrappy for the RSC20.

Since this is a wrapping-it-up post for 2020, here's a flashback of some of my 2020 RSC projects:

I finished this quilt around Valentine's Day.  It's called Catchin' Some Rays.  It was gifted to the neighbor's granddaughter at Christmas.  It was also a Slow Sunday Stitching project when I made all the little hexagon flowers last year during the pink, orange, and light blue months.

I finished my Sand Castles quilt top.  It needs to be quilted.  This is also a Bonnie Hunter design.

During one of the blue or light blue months I made this quilt back.

It ended up on this Wings of Spring quilt that were blocks won in the Block Lotto 

During a green month I made this quilt back.

It ended up on the back of my #SSSSQ (mystery quilt along with the awesome Kevin the Quilter.)  The colors for this quilt were determined when the cutting happened for pink and green months since I had two large bins of both in my scrap totes.

I got this charity guild quilt out during the dark blue month.  It still remains a flimsy.

During a purple month I whipped together this little mug rug/coaster thing that still sits beside my computer today.

One of my goals for 2021 is to finish this Go Four It quilt that has been a great quilt to use up all those 1.5" squares that I make when I'm working on RSC projects.  I have almost all of the blocks done for this quilt.  The next step is to make the neutral end half blocks.