The Home Sweet Home mini quilt.

This quilt is my favourite one of those I've made so far, the two embroidered patches probably have something to do with that. The theme was Home Sweet Home and I first thought I'd have appliqued houses on the quilt, but then I rediscovered an embroidery pattern featuring a house that I'd seen on Pinterest (someone else had posted their version of the embroidery on Instagram) so I decided to add the home element through embroidery panels. 

That first embroidery is the one you can see in the last photo above. The other embroidery I just designed as I went. The saying on the two patches on the top and bottom rows are written in permanent pen, so if the quilt ever needs to be washed it won't run.

The blue and red fabrics were all from my stash, as was the blue checked bias binding.

Both of the photos showing the full front and back of the quilt haven't been taken directly overhead so they're a bit wonky, apologies.

I also made this  house-shaped  lavender sachet to go with the quilt.

More next time.
TTFN
Louise

Text mini quilt.

My second mini quilt.  I found this one quite difficult to do, I think it was because of the text fabric we had to use. I had a problem finding fabric with text on it that I liked and if I did it again I'd use a couple more fabrics along with the text ones.

I used a a simple triangle design for the text fabric, with bands of patterned fabric around the outside.  I used vintage mother of pearl buttons to tie the the quilt together. 

Hand-pieced mini swap.

This is the first mini quilt swap  I've done and fortunately,  for my sewing skills on the sewing machine,  it had to be done by hand! Again, as it was my first, I wanted to do a simple pattern, hence the triangles and squares. I used three different fabrics with a single layer of wadding between the front and back. I used running  around each of the squares for the quilting bit. The edges are bound with bias binding that comes with a little crochet edge.  To make up for the simple design I made puffs that I tied onto all of the corners of the squares in the centre. 

Fortunately,  my partner loved the quilt! 

TTFN 
Louise