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).

The Guild had a demonstration on a new technique for making half-square triangles (HSTs). I wasn’t able to attend the demo and when I tried it out on my own I couldn’t “get it”. In the meantime I had a number of squares cut for HSTs so I stitched them up the traditional way.

I chose a pattern from the book Patchwork Essentials: The Half-Square Triangle (Jeni Baker) but one day I was reading a blog I follow (maryquilts.com) and she had a setting for HSTs that I liked better. I more or less combined the two patterns into something of my own.

This project was both my April and May UFO Challenge and once I decided on the setting it went together quite quickly.

I did some straight-line quilting along with some stitch-in-the-ditch. I’ve always wanted to try quilting e’s and l’s and intended to do that for this quilt. I started out with the e’s and found my mind didn’t switch easily to the l’s so it ended up being only e’s.

I debated whether the quilt was good enough to donate as a Community Quilt but I have decided that’s where it will go.