Happy New Year! I’m so excited to share my first finish of 2025. It’s a mini quilt I’ve wanted to make for a couple years, and I finally had a little chunk of time to devote to it. By mid-December, I had finished my last sewing project of the year and wasn’t feeling inclined to work on any neglected Works in Progress. I also had most of my holiday baking done (my new favorite decadent cookie recipe is the Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies by Ambitious Kitchen). So I decided to start working on a 24″ Color Burst Mini quilt, pattern by Sassafras Lane. The wonderful rainbow colors don’t show up very well in the pic I took on my design board:
It looks wonky as all get out in the photo I took outside on the shed! But the colors in the pic are accurate. I guess we can’t have it all!
I thoroughly enjoyed working on this project. Yellow was my most challenging color, and I had to dip into my stash rather than just using scraps. I wish my Orange section blended a little better, but I love the suns at the top of that section, even though a tone-on-tone fabric would have been less prominent. I quilted it simply with grey spokes and then outlined each segment with the closest color of thread from my selection of threads.
My Creative Color Wheel was a helpful tool in selecting fabrics. I’ve taken photos of both sides of it.
Linking up to Quilt Schmilt: To-Do Tuesday and Songbird Designs: Monday Musings.
Edited: This was my only finish in Jan 2025, so it is definitely my favorite! I’m linking up to Quilting Jetgirl: Favorite Finish January 2025.
Quilting is in my Blood 
Happy New Year, Mary!! A finish for 2025 already! You are off to a great start. I’ve never thought of making a quilt based on a color wheel, but it would be handy to have and pretty, too!
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A wonderful color wheel quilt!!! Great first finish of 2025! Happy new year!
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Beautiful finish Mary! I love gradation quilts, and I’ve saved that pattern to my “potentials” for 2025. Yum on the cookies!
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Oh, that looks like such a fun project and what a great first finish for 2025, Mary! There really aren’t that many true orange fabrics out there (the dye lots slide to salmon really quickly). I think you did a great job with it.
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I’m so happy to get to revisit this delightful mini. Thank you for linking up with Favorite Finish!
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Beautiful! Minis are my favorite to make. And those cookies sound delicious. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
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This is beautiful. I love the way you’ve graded the colours. They really shine 🙂
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Your mini color wheel quilt is just beautiful, Mary! The colors are awesome. The cookies sound delicious too! Thanks for sharing with us at Monday Musings!
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Now, I really like the way that the tip of the orange (and the tip of the bluer turquoise) spokes are a little lighter, because it’s kind of like prisms that are brighter in some spots because of the way the light hits them. Like sunbeams hitting there. I’m probably not describing this well but I can SEE exactly what I mean, inside my own brain…. 24” x 24” is such a fun size project, too — manageable, and as close to “instant gratification” as you can get with quilting!
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Very pretty and colorful quilt. I also have a Color Wheel. and it is very helpful.
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Mary, your Colorburst quilt is just gorgeous! That rainbow of color caught my eye when I came to the link-up and I just had to click on it. I really like that orange section – it moves your eye perfectly from the orange to the yellow. Beautiful finish – I can see why it’s your favorite!
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