Showing posts with label Modern Mini Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Modern Mini Challenge. Show all posts

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Red Sail Modern Mini....

Modern Mini Challenge
I often bang on about how I can't bare to part with too many of my scraps. They have to be pretty small to end up in my bin! I keep them all filed away in various zip lock bags and sort them by shape, size and format such as strips, squares or smallish pieces smaller than a fat 1/4.
Recently when Clare invited us to make quilts for her Retro Baby Quilt market project I gathered a bag of little cream triangles that I'd cut from my Floral Bouquet blocks. I've learnt from experience that triangles cut from 2 1/2" strips set beautifully in 2 1/2" squares. So I set about cutting a pile of 2 1/2" grey blocks and set in the cream triangles. I made one block 4" and set in a larger red triangle.I placed each of the triangles facing the same way, set to the right hand side of the block. I think they look like yacht sails.
This is a little mini quilt 27" x 23". It's quilted in straight line quilting and bound in a red and white polka dot.
It's my entry into Ellison Lane Quilts Modern Mini Quilt Challenge.