Wednesday, September 14, 2016

When Guilds Collide

Earlier this year our guild decided to do a mini quilt swap with the McKinely Texas guild. This was a pretty easy choice since it's just about the mini quilt and we were sending 3 pattern suggestions along with our interests. It also turned out that 3 members of the guild are also in my traveling quilt group, so that's extra fun. 

I got asked to make the rainbow squirrel by Quiet Play as one of my partner's choices.

I eagerly set out on this project by looking for other inspiration -- I didn't want rainbow and neither did my partner but she did like bright citrus colors. With bright colors as my guide I tried to think of an interesting way to make this mini special. I decided I would make multiple squirrels, one in each of her chosen citrus colors. The idea that I was missing something obvious kept nagging at me so I looked online for citrus colored artwork -- and there it was in it's Warhol nature, my future mini quilt. 
I pulled out scraps from the string bins and scrap baskets first. 
These squirrels went together easily and relatively quickly -- i shrank the pattern by 25% and made a 9 inch version of the block. 
 Then there were a pair
and then there were 4 -- I got it quilted in organic circles and ready to ship out. 
Oh, so cute. It will be heading over to live with Ellyn in Texas. 

In return I got this Awesome Cat mini by Martha


This was my 1st finish in the 3rd quarter and my OMG goal for July. 

5 comments:

  1. I love my squirrels! thank you so much. I hope we swap with your guild again sometime.

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  2. Great job, girlfriend! I love your interpretation of this design. Your work is so inspiring. And you kitty quilt gift is pretty great too!

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  3. I agree. Great job and I'm not surprised that she loves it.

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  4. It's beautiful! Thank you for participating in the FAL, on behalf of the 2016 global FAL hosts.

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  5. Those are some awesome squirrels! I love this interpretation!

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