flimsy finishes

i got so close to completing this top the weekend before, but i did not cross the finish line. all week the pairs of rows were draped on the chair next to the blue sewing room doors and i just let them be, working on other sunnier projects instead.

when this weekend rolled around, and i finally had time to quilt rather than design kitchen drawers, i had completed the last of my "sunny yellow crossroads" blocks and was excited to put them together. but i looked at these rows, so close to being a flimsy, and decided to do the quick work first.

voila! some pinning and two long seams later i had my first quilt top - flimsy - of the day finished.

once laid out, i could see i'd turned some blocks. in fact, half of one center row is turned the wrong way. oopsy. but it's not obvious and it's not the kind of thing that needs to be fixed. this top has a topsy-turvy, jumbled look anyway, so the pattern guidelines i used weren't brazenly apparent. i only noticed because i was looking to see if i got all the blocks in the correct positions and noticed some were turned. but no unpicking today. this flimsy is finished.

i got right on to putting these blocks into flimsy form. i timed myself: 10:15am start to 2:05pm finish. i had a few minor interruptions and took periodic water breaks, but i worked pretty steadily the whole time. i don't know if 4 hours was fast, average, or slow?  however that measures out, this is my 2nd flimsy finish of the day.

what a good saturday!