Small Quilt Swap time rolled around in Kathy Tracey's Small Quilt Talk yahoo group and I signed up again. My swap partner this year was Cindy and she told me the colours she liked were red, grey, pink and beige...and she didn't have a favourite block or blocks...mmm...what to make, what to make??? Books, patterns, appealing to the Deity of Inspiration but still a niggle of mmmm....consulting the Gallery of Google and came across some drunkards path block quilts...Ah Ha! I've had those templates for a Very Long Time including a 3" block (remember Small Quilt)...a bit of a mud map drawn up for the layout and off to the stash boxes to find fabric in the four preferred colours.
The end result...
I didn't realise until way too late - like the parcel had made its way to the USA -
that the photo is a bit blurry, darn.
We agreed to add some "extras" and while out and out I picked up a Natalie Bird pattern from Quilters Harvest in Warracknabeal (sadly the shop is retiring on 30 June) for a table runner and some fabrics as a starter kit for the pattern...along with making a pincushion (Leanne's House pattern) and a hexie mug mat/coaster...
The top was hand pieced except for machining the long seams to join the four rows. Quilting took on a challenge in that nothing worked so I ended up "ditching" around the meanders of the design (and didn't take a photo of the back which showed it up nicely - ejit!) and planned hand quilting detail wouldn't work either...sometimes you just have to accept it is going to be what it is going to be and put it in the mail!...
I was very excited when my parcel arrived from Cindy...ooohhhhh what deliciousness lies in that box (after getting over the Customs opened the box heart attack!)...This lovely little quilt...
Cindy added lovely extras...
Lucky me! Another fun Small Quilt Talk Swap...this group is the best...
Happy Stitching...
