moda grunge kapow! quilt

i think i've tested a few patterns in my day prior to this one... but i honestly cannot think of any others besides boba fett... but this one was a real delight to put together!
in the past month or so i joined a young and millennials quilter group on facebook, and have zero regrets about the group.  like... i made lisa join it too, and she's had great results from it.  one of the first posts i responded to was from joanna with kustom kwilts looking for people to test her pattern.  i thought it looked AWESOME, so i jumped on board and responded, despite the other things i still had planned to do.

i'm sure you're sensing a pattern here with my project behaviors.  can't be productive if 10,000 things aren't happening at once!  originally, i signed up for the lap sized quilt, but when she needed testers for the baby size, i gladly obliged.  let's be real... i should have only taken on the baby sized quilt for testing... but you'll see where this same situation happens again VERY soon.
before this quilt, i had never made one that was 100% out of grunge.  and if you've seen my posts before, you know very well how much i love, love, love it.  like, we just got all the moda grunges in at the shop, and i'm like a walking heart eye emoji whenever i'm near them.  i took advantage of this size and pulled a rainbow assortment of fat quarters that helped complete the rainbow plus a few extras to make it pop (i needed 9 for the baby size).  with that, i starched, ironed, and then got to cutting! i tried to space the colors out the best i could, since i didn't want the same three colors to rotate through the blocks, leaving me with only 3 different colorway sets.  i have to say, i think i did a pretty darn good job with it!  this quilt, much like the mini meadowland i posted last week, had 16" blocks, which was perfect.  the size of the center star was just the right side, and with the grunge there was no worry about anything being directional.the great thing about this crayola-esque color way, is it isn't really gender specific.  the fabric i picked for the back was this perfectly matched rainbow brick print i got at thistledew's retirement sale.  once i quilted this quilt, i assumed it was just going to sit and wait for a home before i decided how to bind it.  then, i remembered a dear friend of mine from high school was expecting her first baby, and she would be the perfect person to receive this fun quilt.  i bound it in raspberry pink grunge, since i had a ton left over from the meadowland backing, and sent it on it's way.beyond the grunge, i loved a lot of things about this pattern.  everything is made from traditional quilt block piecing - half square triangles and flying geese in particular.  there is plenty of room to trim down, and most of the points aren't even near the final seam allowance to get lost.  i'm one that often loses points on my block edges, but this one i had GREAT experience with, and i think i only lost a few points, and that was due to binding.  i call that a win.

i loved looking and seeing other pattern testers versions of this block.  some fussy cut things for the middle and others used only two color ways instead of 9 to get a totally different effect.  i hope someday i'm a little more bold when it comes to pattern testing instead of following the instructions EXACTLY as written.
but you know what.
i love my grungey kapow so much.  i think that top left pink/yellow/aqua one might be my favorite block though.

pattern information: kapow! quilt by kustom kwilts
quilt count: 142