{"id":70266,"date":"2026-04-03T07:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70266"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:19:34","slug":"finished-patchwork-palooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/finished-patchwork-palooza\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished: Patchwork Palooza"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70286\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260328_111120_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70286\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260328_111120_wm-sm-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"Finished: Patchwork Palooza\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260328_111120_wm-sm-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260328_111120_wm-sm-768x889.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260328_111120_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 85vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finished: Patchwork Palooza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I finished the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/patchwork-palooza-top-complete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patchwork Palooza top in January<\/a> and now the whole quilt is complete: top, back, quilting, binding, sleeve. Done.<\/p>\n<p>I am pleased with how I finished the edges. I think completing the diagonals looks nice.<\/p>\n<p>There are blocks that I wish I had moved, but that will probably always be the case.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DH actually commented that he really liked this quilt. Maybe it will be a gift for him?<\/p>\n<p>I will be entering this quilt into the Fair.<\/p>\n<p>It must be some kind of record! I started this quilt on about <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/patchwork-palooza-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 6, 2025<\/a>. Here it is, 6 months later finished. I am really happy and kind of stunned as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70287\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260328_111137_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70287\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260328_111137_wm-sm-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"Finished: Patchwork Palooza-back\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260328_111137_wm-sm-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260328_111137_wm-sm-768x856.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260328_111137_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 85vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finished: Patchwork Palooza-back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the Patchwork Palooza top in January and now the whole quilt is complete: top, back, quilting, binding, sleeve. Done. I am pleased with how I finished the edges. I think completing the diagonals looks nice. There are blocks that I wish I had moved, but that will probably always be the case.&nbsp; DH &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/finished-patchwork-palooza\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finished: Patchwork Palooza&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[555,349,128,16,72,554,252],"class_list":["post-70266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-block-of-the-month","tag-blocks","tag-completed-project","tag-finishing","tag-group-project","tag-patchwork-palooza","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70266"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70302,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70266\/revisions\/70302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}