Happy Puppy Mini Quilt

Took a break from a larger quilt-in-progress to make a mini today. It was all improv! Just knew I wanted to use these cute Heather Ross dogs with the very fun Cogsmo. Since I'm a "should have done it differently" kinda person, I would tweak with a few things if I had it to do over again. BUT I think it was good for me to do a make-it-up-as-you-go-along sort of project for a change.

Love how bright and fun it all is! I must be feeling bold and cheerful thanks to the summer-like weather I'm enjoying. (Notice my happy warm weather shoes?)

The secret to this quilt? It's computer powered!

Don't puppies just make you smile?

I stink at free motion quilting.

I've tried. Multiple times. On this quilt alone I ripped out my stitches several times. I finally had to admit that I am just no good at free motion quilting. :-(

Oh, well. I'm still happy with how this mini quilt came out, straight lines and all. I used an ingenious tutorial from Oh, Fransson to make the tiny squares. The fabrics are a mix of Heather Ross, Amy Butler, Anna Maria Horner's Good Folks, and Wonderland by Momo.

Free motion quilters, I salute you! If there's some secret I'm missing please let me know. Otherwise, looks like the good old walking foot's gonna be this girl's best quilting friend.

JUST TO CLARIFY: After several comments about it, let me make it clear that the lines I did here were NOT with my free motion foot. I was attempting to do a meandering stipple line, then eventually gave up and went to the walking foot. I may be bad at free motion quilting, but I do know enough not to try straight lines with it. Thanks!

Mini Quilt Monday

What is this rainbow-colored goodness? Why, it's my first mini quilt! (I'm not counting coasters. Too mini.)


I used a bunch of scraps from some of my favorite fabrics to get the ROYGBIV effect. There's Heather Ross, Denyse Schmidt, Anna Maria Horner, Amy Butler and more in there.


In several of the rows I added in a random fabric in the same color, just for fun. Don't you think rainbows are the happiest things?


The back, although, to tell the truth, I think I like it even better than the front. :-) I really love the way the quilted zigzags look on the white fabric.

This little octopus makes me smile. Hopefully this is the first of many minis!