Working Ever-so-small

Week of miniatures, me doing small stuff as HB quilts...

Today's blocks, trimmed to 1-1/2 inches (note the 50p piece for scale) for a version of Green Venus, long sold but still a favourite

Fussy-cut!

Micro-trees

A good day's work

And the mess. Silk is frightfully messy

Original, sorry the colour is so poor

More tomorrow

HH

 

Hanging up our Smalls

 Another productive day in MiniQuiltVille: it's been a day for smalls - here's what we've been doing.

HH has been improv-ing on charm squares and mini charms, and I have been paper piecing as is my wont! Patterns for each of these mini quilt projects will be hitting the web soon. If you haven't already done so, sign up to our joint newsletter: Modern Art Quilters, to find out when. CLICK HERE to view past issues (lots of inspiration, ideas and patterns) and sign-up.

Still heading home in daylight since there's a lot of snow and ice on the roads which gave me the chance to make more of these miniature blocks while the other half was on Zoom with his Scouts.

These will finish to 1.5 inches each and I can only make a few at a time before I start to go cross-eyed and have to do something else for a bit so this one is growing slowly but I am loving it. Only another four to go.

Week of Minis and Miniatures

HB and I made a grand plan to spend the week making mini quilts (also called Smalls) and Miniatures (which should look like a big quilt in a photo without a measure for scale)

And then, it has snowed, boy has it snowed. So we are working in our respective little spaces and Zooming for company...

In between sewing teeny blocks I packed some more Oakshott scrap packs, these have been going like the proverbial warm buns
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So, I found a charm pack (5 inch squares) of the old hand-woven Oakshott fabrics Autumn colours (21 colours in the original selection) and cut them like this

Then I made 21 little trees, exchanging the colours. Charm pack at the bottom for scale. Tomorrow I will trim these and sew them together in some way...

This is my little design wall at the top of the stairs,  which was all scrappy and full of little bits of paper, so I cleaned it all off and hung up a selection of my earlier pieces for inspiration. And I have made a list of possible ideas which is probably far too long

More tomorrow