So... what do you do when time is short and you need a quick gift? Go to the nearest mall? Department store? Grocery store? [...]
Well, you can keep looking and looking, but you won't find one of those in The Hill! OK, there's some places about 7 miles away, but there's nothing like a hand-made gift that you can put together in two evenings, trying to squeeze quality time with the sewing machine while the world whirls and rolls around you...
With all the scrappy experiments I've been doing, I had a bunch of small pieces that ended up in a small topper/mini quilt:
I just cut 3.5" inch squares of linen and blue fabric, and pieced them together. Now, you know I like to experiment and practice FMQ each time I can, so I couldn't let this chance go... I ended up doing a different FMQ desing on each linen square, but this time I used contrasting thread. The intention was matching it to the main color, but I'm not completely sure I like the final result.
The good thing, is that the person I gave it to liked it! (Moms are like that:) ). Blue is her favorite color and I had to make something that would fit in a box all the way back to the big city. I cracked up when she called me and said something like "that little doily is cute." Yep, mom is cute like that. :)
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