Friday Finish: Spiderweb Mini

Yay, it's Friday, and yay, I have a finish!!!  It's been too long.  This mini was an Instagram Pay it Forward made for a friend.  It has been 99% complete for a while, and I was able to deliver it to her in person this week.

Notice a theme?

I discovered Julia loves Anna Maria Horner about the time I started working on her PIF which coincidentally was when the SewDown Nashville teachers (including Anna) were announced and I had just ordered some AMH fabric bundles.  I knew then that I wanted to make her something featuring Anna's fabrics.

  

the top

Also around that same time I was working on my MCM Bee spiderweb blocks and cut some of the background blocks too small.  This mini is a product of that happy mistake and the lovely coincidences.  There are one or two non AMH prints.  The background fabric is natural linen.

machine and hand quilted

I used Aurifil #5011 (which is the perfect color for this linen) 50wt to machine quilt the webs and then used Perle Cotton to do some hand stitching in the background areas.  With my sore wrist, it took a while to do the hand work.  I was determined to add that perle cotton stitching ever since running across this selvage quilt on Flickr.

The backing is a AMH fat quarter and the binding is a roll of ready made binding I purchased a while back from Lollipops.  These designer bindings are fun to have on hand for minis.

AMH mini quilt, mini pincushion, FQ and notepad

I also stitched up a mini pincushion and threw in a fat quarter.  The cute notepad was part of the swag given by Anna Maria Horner during her studio tour at SewDown.  Another happy coincidence is Julia won the giveaway of extra AMH swag at Wednesday's guild meeting.  

Our OrlandMQG is challenging its members to finish their WIPs.  This is the first one crossed off my list of 30+.  Whoo hoo!  Also linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts finish it up Friday.

Enjoy your weekend!

Waverunner Quilt Along

I signed up to participate in the Waverunner Quilt Along at Bumble Beans.  Yesterday, the first set of instructions was posted.  I'm not sure if my Waverunner button works, but it looks pretty.  Sometimes I have a problem getting the links to work when I copy buttons.  If the button doesn't work, you can click  here to check it out.

Such pretty solid quilt fabric.  This is not my stash OR scraps.  Previously, I have not used solid fabrics for quilting, so I ordered these beautiful Kona cotton fabrics.  Now, I'm supposed to take my rotary cutter and slice into this pretty fabric without a ruler???!!!??    That's what V at Bumble Beans says is the first step in making the Waverunner blocks.  So, that's what I did!!!   Gulp...

I know it's hard to tell, but I DID cut my strips wavy per instructions.  Here are the first strips hanging on the design wall before elimination.  My backing fabric is backordered, so I pinned a printout of the design.  It is from Amy Butler's new LOVE collection.  This is as far as I got today.

I did do a little fabric shopping to supplement the quilt I am making for Margaret's Hope Chest.  If you remember, I had a problem with backordered fabric and lower quality fabric.  I am prewashing the fabric at the moment and hope to complete the quilt top tomorrow.

I am still looking for someone to play along with my Pay It Forward.  If you are interested, click here or leave a comment on today's post.  Have an amazing day!!!

Pay It Forward

It just so happens that I was one of the first three people to click on Sherri's Pay it Forward.   Yeah!!!  I am so excited!!  I am a big fan of Sherri's and consider myself tremendously lucky to receive a handmade gift from her!!!!  So ...  now it is my turn.  Who would like to play with me?  For those who may not know, here are the rules.  I will make a little something for the first three people who comment on this post.  I will have 365 days to do it in.  YOU must have a blog and post your Pay It Forward on your blog to keep the fun going.   Let's see who wants to play!!  Have an amazing day!!!