I'm a little late for mini-quilt Monday, but these -alongs are supposed to be low stress. First of all, I have some micro-mini quilts.
They measure 2 inches by 3 inches! One of my assignments for teacher training is to come up with three small objects to represent each of the 26 sounds in the alphabet. "q" objects are a little harder to come by, so I'm making enough to trade with all of my classmates. They're fun to make, and I was using just tiny snippets of fabric. I used fusible webbing to stick the snippets onto a 2x3 "backing" piece, and then quilted across the layers and satin stitched the edges.
Here's a slightly bigger mini-quilt.
I wanted to play with putting orange, pink, and turquoise together. I like it! I think I might like this more without the white breaking up the color, because I just love riots of color. But this quilt is still quite good at making me smile.
And finally, here's a non-mini quilt-in-progress.
I finally laid out all of my hexagons a few weeks ago. I like the way this came together! I'm currently attaching column 3 to column 4, and it's a little slow going. I'm enjoying the process, however, and some day I'll have a pretty quilt to show for it.
What a great idea for Q! Your hexagons look like a marvel. I will stick with squares myself. LOL
Posted by: Antoinette | August 11, 2009 at 08:51 PM
wow those hexagon's rock I love how your striped it like a rainbow!
Posted by: Kelly | August 12, 2009 at 06:19 AM
Love the colors in the minis -- wonderful little quilts. And the hexagon quilt is incredible!
Posted by: Terrie Sandelin | August 12, 2009 at 09:40 AM
I love those hexagons. I have never done EPP, so I might give that a whirl sometime.
Posted by: nova | August 13, 2009 at 11:55 AM
oh wow- those hexs are amazing! i was marveling at your box-o-hexs but the quilt itself- wow. can't wait to see it all done up!
Posted by: duni | August 13, 2009 at 03:04 PM
WOW!! It's all *gorgeous*!!
Posted by: earthchick | August 14, 2009 at 10:46 AM
That hexagon quilt is going to be gorgeous.
Posted by: Paula Boren | August 16, 2009 at 12:14 PM
I love how you laid out the hexagon quilt! I am a sucker for colors laid out in a rainbow. We have colored test tubes in lab (pink for red and no indigo--but otherwise the prismatic colors)--and I often use them in "order" which most of my labmates find amusing.
Great idea to use the mini-quilts for the letter Q.
Posted by: Brenda | August 20, 2009 at 06:40 PM
If I don't have a machine that can do satin stitches (I have a Featherweight), what do you think I could do the edges with if I tried doing minis like yours? They're adorable, by the way! I was thinking last night about doing some and using a glue stick - didn't even think about fusible webbing!
Posted by: Cyndi | August 21, 2009 at 11:23 AM