This swap was designed so your partner doesn't know who you are. Meaning I got a short description from my partner about the things she liked. Wendy had some great input that pointed me in the direction of yellow and springtime. I had this single charm pack from Kate Spain that just begged to become something that said springtime. I hadn't used my Sidekick ruler yet, either. Time to put these things together!
I played with the layout a little until it did something I liked. It took me a couple tries.
This quilt needed to be a mini quilt, so I kept the borders narrow. I wanted the triangles to have some room to breath, but not to swim on the background.
The backing I picked wasn't quite big enough, so I did some improv piecing to make the backing. I really like this one. It brings the colors from the front to the back and did what it was intended - make the backing big enough.
I decided that I wanted to long arm quilt this. I could have done the quilting on the domestic, but I thought I could really do better work with the long arm. In my opinion my free-motion quilting isn't bad, but my long arm quilting is better.
I wanted to use a piece of the Quilter's Dream Green for this quilt since it is a mini, but the pieces I had leftover from Soul Stealer weren't quilt big enough so I used a piece of cotton batting. I basted the quilt top down and walked back and forth for a little while until I settled on flowers as a motif. This really brought this quilt from sprint/summer back to spring. The colors worked either way, but the flowers say spring to me.
I did some fine lines for a border of sorts. That wasn't easy to fit into that narrow border but I like the effect.
This quilt doesn't mind if you look at the back.
I had trouble finding a suitable binding for this quilt. I took tiny little triangles to the fabric store to find this fun dotty print.
After I did that dense quilting around the borders, I realized there was no way I could get a hand-finished binding that wouldn't kill my fingers. I decided to go for the machine-finished binding and was pleasantly surprised when it didn't suck. I'm getting better at machine-finished binding, I guess.
Pretty much a total quilt label fail on this one. No imagination, nothing. At least it says something and identifies the maker and where it was made.
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