Monday, June 15, 2009

Mini Quilt Monday #2


My second mini quilt. It is about 11" x 16" The little hour glass blocks started out as some of the my extra 2.5" squares. (As I work on the nine patches, they seem to be growing in number exponentially!) So, those finished blocks are an inch and a half square.
I usually use Gutermann thread to do the quilting, but this time I used cotton machine-quilting thread. I wanted it to show a little more on the linen.
The embroidery is the first one I did since childhood. I pieced together some of my favorite bits from Aimee Ray's Doodle-Stitching book.

10 comments:

Liz Jimenez said...

Beautiful! I feel like I should really learn something about embroidery, now...

Isa said...

It's beautiful, I love it!
The doddle stitching book is really great.

Mushyhed said...

I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!! That's so pretty!

heather said...

GREAT JOB!!!! Fantastic!!

One Flew Over said...

That embroidery piece is stunning!

Mark said...

That is Beautiful!! I love the embroidery and those mini hour glass blocks are fantastic!

Dresden Quilter said...

Stunning, stunning, stunning. Your creativity never ends!

Julie @ Jaybird Quilts said...

i love the little bird... and the linen.. and the triangles... oh i love it all!!

Ariel said...

Thank you so much for commenting on my blog today! It lead me here and I'm glad I found your blog!!! LOVE both mini quilts and your hutch full of fabric! I'll be back for more!

Betsy said...

This mini quilt is absolutely darling.