Saturday 21 June 2014

Schnitzel and Boo mini quilt

I accomplished my June ALYoF goal - to complete my Schnitzel & Boo Mini Quilt Swap mini quilt.  Yay


Can you believe that this particular swap has over 600 participants - wild.  This also makes it hard to determine who may be making you a mini but this makes it fun to keep guessing until the work of art actually arrives on your doorstep!

For my partner, Tula Pink was listed as one of their favourite designers.  I dug through my stash (one of my promises to myself in the Fabric Fast was to 'use what I already have') and I discovered a few lovely Tula Pink fat quarters.  I cut a few 5" charms and sewed them to some white charms and then cut them and cut them again and once again and ended up with a whole bunch of 2" half square triangles.  I really had no plan except to cut and see what could happen!


With a few of the scraps I also made a Thumb/finger pincushion ring and a needle book with some pins in it.  I hope my partner loves this set as much as I do.

For the quilting I used my Hera Marker and quilted some relatively straight lines on the diagonal.  I like the book of it - especially from the back which shows a grid on point effect.  What a great feeling to have it completed before I depart for my holiday and before the deadline.

Linking to Fiber of All Sorts.  TOO LATE to link!  Boohoo.



10 comments:

Kay said...

I think they are gorgeous, love the colours. I am sure your partner will be a very happy lady. x

Kay said...

I think they are gorgeous, love the colours. I am sure your partner will be a very happy lady. x

Jeneta said...

Beautiful! It seems like you whipped those up in 5 minutes!!

Izzy said...

These are beautiful Amy! Your partner will love them I am sure!

mumasu said...

Beautiful colours and I love the idea of cut, sew and see what happens :)

Needled Mom said...

They are beautiful and I am sure your partner will love her package.

Indianna said...

Looks fabulous, I wouldn't have guessed that they were HST.

Katie said...

this turned out great -- I'm another one of those 600 participants so maybe this is coming my way....

Strawberry Patch said...

Hey I love tula! Shame I'm not in the swap :-(

Sarah Goer Quilts said...

I love the colors and patterns of that HST mini. So lovely!