SENDING PATCHWORK SUNSHINE THROUGH THE POST

I sent my Little Quilts Swap package off to my partner this week and I’m so excited, nervous and anxious to know if they like it or not. This is the first mini quilt I’ve ever given to someone else and I’m both thrilled and packing my pants about it all.

I ended up going with a really simple quilting pattern on this one because I wanted the fabrics and pattern to really be the focus and also because I’m a bit of a novice when it comes to quilting so I didn’t want to ruin my patchwork with my quilting.

Some what ironically the day that I finished the mini and tried to get photos it was bucketing down with rain (and accompanied with thunder and lighting) and so my photos are plagued with shadows. Oh well…

As you can (hopefully see) I just went with simple line quilting to try and accentuate the blades of the dresden.  I used Aurifil #4663 (50wt) which is a variegated blue thread for the background and binding. I want it to just add a subtle line in the quilt and not compete with the background.

I used a rainbow stripe (which is fabric I had left over from binding on “Samuel’s Technicolour Yawn“) on the back because I thought it was a happy fabric. My partner said that her sewing room was her happy place and so I wanted to make her a mini that would bring her happiness when she looked at it and I’m hopeful that’s what I’ve achieved.

My parcel from my swap partner arrived yesterday and in an awesome twist of fate my partner was Anorina (of Samelia’s Mum) who I only just met last month!

How awesome was this parcel of quilting goodness! I’m so thrilled and touched and honoured to have a quilt by Anorina in my collection now. It’s just perfect. I’m also crushing on the perfect-for-fussy-cutting fabric she included and the owl needle book (which is proving very popular and if you’d like to go into a needle book swap next year, be sure to check out Anorina’s Facebook page!).

I’ve had such fun with this swap and I can’t wait to see when my partner gets their package (hopefully before Christmas). I’m totally going to be participating and running more swaps in 2015!