One of my favourite online resources is the Temecula Quilt Company. I’ve downloaded several of their quilt-alongs, and started quite a few of them, but this is my first finish.

The little 3″ blocks were difficult enough but when I put the quilt together getting them on-point almost blew my mind. And I realize that even though everyone loves the grey background fabric, stripes is not the best way to go unless you get them all going the right way. And don’t even get me started on those half-square triangles in the border.

I originally thought of this as a donation quilt but after three years of work this one is staying with me.

This will be my October offering for the Mini Meez group at the Guild. I used leftovers from one of my favourite fabric lines – a ’30’s reproduction bundle that I purchased at the Saskatoon Quilt Show a few years ago. It was my first Fat Quarter bundle and I can’t believe how many times I’ve used it and how much of it is still left.

The piece is a bit smaller than it was supposed to be. I used a lovely tone-on-tone for the white but that particular fat quarter didn’t have enough to do the full border. I added another white but, because it showed as very different from the white in the main part, I made the border very narrow – just enough to frame it.

I didn’t care for the designer’s name of Pow Wow so renamed it to Chevrons.

On my last trip to Saskatoon Stacia, Deloise and I made the rounds of the local quilt shops (of course). I came home with a booklet that has patterns for eight miniature quilts. Perfect – my year for the Mini Meez club is set.

This is the first one in the series – due at the September meeting. I used scraps from the Inside the Blue Fence quilt.

This was a project that I worked on when our Thursday group got together for a retreat in January. Two of us wanted to do it, and two of us had done it before.

This is the same fabric as I used for my One Block Wonder wall hanging. It didn’t work out so great for that project so I had hopes it would be better for this. Although we had a pattern and two “experts” we did the cutting wrong so it didn’t turn out as well as it should have.

I quilted it with straight lines and the backing is the original fabric.

I have some fabric left and I’m hoping to be able to try another triangle frenzy (there are several different styles).