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3.25.2009
Bits & Pieces
I made this mini (measures ~11 1/4 inch square) for my March S.T.U.D. partner. I've had this quilt on the radar for a while now and thought that a mini would be a good size to try. My deluded self thought this would be a quick and easy quilt to do. Ah, well, it was not hard so much as time consuming and a bit frustrating. I followed this great tutorial. Piecing the individual squares went quickly. Laying out the squares and assembling them into a top took me a long, long time (considering I thought I'd have this done in 2 hours). I arranged and re-arranged and sewed more blocks, cut off part of blocks that I had sewn (I really hate doing that --- it kind of feels like a waste of time, energy and materials) and, finally, pieced it together. I kept the quilting simple and random (it actually shows up pretty good in the photo below).I learned a number of things with this project: 1) I did not enjoy the process enough to do it again (w/o serious motivation from an outside source - like someone sitting next to me saying, "here, sew this together..."); 2) I am in to squares, simple and clean lines right now, and 3) I really, really am loving making minis w/o a binding. I love that there is nothing to stop your eye and the field is complete. I wanted the color to run right off the side of the quilt and felt that a binding was not going to work for me and this mini.
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Sara, it's a cute mini quilt...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link of tutorial.
Love the mini quilt! Know what you mean about being into minis. I guess that is also whay it is such fun to be in a quilting bee. You only have to do one block of any design!
ReplyDeleteI love the clean fresh look of this this sweet little quilt! Speaking of clean and fresh... Daisy Mae had a birthday bath the other day, she turned 9! I've made her one quilt, she loves it - I'll post another pic of her and Sophie soon...
ReplyDeleteYou got a great result!!
ReplyDeleteI also found it hard to finally get something that was square/rectangular. It took me a long time to finally finish it.
- Muriƫl