Lizzy House Mini Quilt Swap

I'm not sure how it happened but I got yet another amazing mini quilt from the last round of swapping!

I made this quilt to send away to my partner and I was pretty happy with how it turned out.

My outgoing pack looked like this.  I included a charm pack of all the Pearl Bracelets too.

This is the incredibly amazing quilt I received in return for the one I sent!  Can you believe it?  

I especially love the alley cat in the bottom right corner.  See how it looks like he is missing an ear?  It is really there, just a darker gray like the background.  Cute though.  

Even an orange one just like my Jack!

She also sent some tissue, an adorable cat note book and cat Washi tape. 

 I think I made out like a bandit!  Such a beautiful quilt.  

It is hanging on the wall in my sewing room even as I type this.  

Just look at all that Lizzy House gorgeousness!!!

The back was made with this wonderful green Hello Pilgrim fabric, so lush. 

 She even used LH fabric for the label.  

Thanks Megan, for sending me such an amazing mini quilt.  I just adore it!

~XOP~

Lizzy House Mini Quilt Swap

I finally got my Lizzy House mini quilt all finished!  I quilted it myself and I am so happy how it turned out!!

Here is the back side too.  

I didn't use any fabric that was not Lizzy House in making this quilt!  

I don't think my partner reads my blog so I think it is fair to show the name on the label.

The tracking says it has arrived but she has not posted anything up on Instagram yet so I hope it has.

I also made this pin cushion to send along as a little extra.  

It is not made out of all Lizzy House fabric.

But the back is.

I cut a full set of all of the Pearl Bracelet fabrics and sent a charm of each along 

with some Quilty looking chocolate from IKEA.  Here is what my little package looked like.

I sure hope she posts about it soon or I just may die of it!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Linking up to Crazy Mom Quilt's Finish It Up Friday post.

~XOP~

Lizzy House Mini Quilt Swap

The WIP I want to talk about today is the Lizzy House Mini Quilt Swap quilt.
Linking up to WIP Wednesday over at Freshly Pieced.

 I finally got some time to work on it this past weekend. 

 I decided I needed to get it quilted so that's what I worked on this past Sunday. 

 I had to make the back.

I had one set of flying geese left over but that is not what I wanted to do.  

I picked it apart and made a pinwheel with it.  I decided to put that on the back. 

 Then I thought it would be neat to try to match the placement with the gray pinwheel on the front.  

A little tricky. 

 I sewed a back with the pinwheel in the same place on the back as the front.  

Then I layered it and used the crack in my table and a pin to try to line the pinwheels up 

as close as I could before I began to baste.

I then pin basted and drew the beginning circles using Perfect Circles templates as my guides.

I was able to use those lines to guide off for making the rest of the concentric circles for the quilting.  

I did make a few registration marks to know exactly where to begin the next set of circles, 

but that is all the marking I did for the quilting.  

I chose circular quilting to sort of build on the wind theme.  

Air coming off of the pinwheels.

This is how the quilting looked on the pinwheel on the back.  

Pretty close, just offset by a small bit, but I am happy with this.

Here is the quilt almost finished. 

 I chose some Pearl Bracelets for binding and it is just glued down.  

I still need to finish hand stitching it down and I need to make a label.   

I am very pleased with how it is turning out.  I hope my swap partner will love it as much as I do!

~XOP~

WIP Wednesday

I have any number of these to talk about but I will choose just the one...for now.

I am in a swap using Lizzy House fabric for the mini quilt. 

 I have my top all finished but need to make the back and then quilt it.  

I originally put in a pair of red geese but opted for all low volume in the end.  

Just to show you how it changed how the quilt looked.  I really liked the second layout much better.

This left me with a pair of geese so I decided to unpick the sewing and 

sew them back together as a pinwheel.  

(Have you figured out where I'm going with this?)  You probably have, smarty pants!

I am going to put it on the back and *try* to get it close to where the pinwheel is on the front.  

My plan is to do concentric circles starting in the pinwheel to make it look like waves of wind.  

Wish me luck!

Linking up to Lee's WIP Wednesday

~XOP~