It's a pantone finish !!
Meet my newest mini quilt - Pixelated Purple Heart !
I decided to join in the Pantone Radiant Orchid challenge as I have quite a few purples in my stash - originally I made another small quilt for the challenge but I ran out of a fabric and I'm having issues trying to replace it - but that's a story for another day!
On Monday I saw a photo by @thatswhatlindseymade on Instagram and immediately thought of doing the pixelated heart but as a mini - I just reduced the size of the squares from 5 inches to 1 inch!
on Thursday night I sat at my machine for a wonderfully therapeutic matchstick quilting session - the mini is 15 inches square - it took around 3 hours to quilt and with stitching about a 1/8 inch apart its got around 20,000 quilting stitches ! love that my sewing machine counts the stitches for me !
I wasn’t sure about using the dark thread on the background but decided to just do it and I’m really happy with how it turned out !
and it took me a little while to work out that I could just move the needle over rather than cut threads at the end of each line !!
I finished off the binding earlier today.
I’m so glad to have made the challenge deadline and I’d best be off to upload the link - it closes soon !
2013 was supposed to be my UFO busting year but unfortunately it didn't happen like that - way too many shiny new things to distract me !
I did get one or two UFOs off my very long list but I haven't really put a dent in.
This year I'm a bit more determined - I think the new sewing machine and a confidence that I can machine quilt is helping !
So I decided I'd join in A Lovely Year of Finishes again this year - its a one finish a month project and here we are in March and I'm only just getting started - oh well, at least its a start.
I'm going to list smaller or almost finished projects on my monthly ALYoF lists so that I might actually get some finishes ! For my March project I'm going to list a cushion that I promised my mum I'd make for her over Christmas and I haven't even started yet - I did order a little fabric for the background and backing which has arrived and now I need to get on and make it !
Mum fell in love with this cushion I made for the Christmas Pillow Talk Swap at the end of last year (not sure that I've even done a post with that finished pillow!) and I said I'd be happy to make her one too !
Our local agricultural show is on next weekend - that's about 10 days - and I'm going to challenge myself to get this cushion done so that I can enter it into the show and then send it to mum - people who know that I quilt often ask why I don't put things in the annual show - I'm not sure non-quilters understand the UFO list!
A Lovely Year of Finishes is run over at Fiber of All Sorts and Sew Bitter Sweet Designs and you can join in by linking up a project in the first seven days of the month and link up your finished project in the last seven days of that month - they have some wonderful link-up prizes so that's an added bonus to your finished project !