This one has been finished for awhile but, for whatever reason, I didn’t record it. I’ll soon be looking at my 2019 accomplishments so I want to get everything in here before then.

The pattern came from Stacia, Deloise’s and my trip to Houston. We each bought a bundle of 3 fabrics (1 yard of each) and got a free pattern to go with it. This is the one I picked because I love love love pinwheels.

It was very quick to put together and the quilting was done on Texada on one of those weekends where I quilted to my hearts content in my workshop.

I’m not sure where this one will end up – maybe a gift to someone or maybe a donation quilt.

When we (Stacia, Deloise and I) were at the Saskatoon Quilt Show this fall both Deloise and I purchased a book of eight patterns (and shared them). There is no limit to the number of quilts I can make from these patterns alone.

When I see fabric on sale or fabric that I really like but have no real reason to purchase I think of these 3-yard patterns and purchase fabric guilt-free!

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.