Fall Mini-Quilt Swap Done!

I spent all day yesterday taking down all our Christmas decorations (9 big tubs) and cleaning the house and then putting out all my snowmen. Man, it took ALLLLLLL day to get that done. Real l l l l l y wanted to sew/quilt instead, but school starts back tomorrow, so it HAD to be done before I'm back to work.

But, this morning, after mass and breakfast out at Silver Diner, I went right into my sewing room and got sooooooo much done! I completely finished my Fall Mini-Quilt Swap project. Woot woot!! :-)

I'll be sending it on to my secret partner tomorrow. She lives in Arizona! Hope she doesn't read my blog and see it early!! It was a fun little project. It was a kit, which was nice not to have to select the fabrics. That always takes me forever! You, too?? It was just nice to start tracing, fusing, cutting and sewing!

I fused the applique pieces and then sewed around the edges with a colorful variegated thread.



I quilted the background using black thread, going around each fused object and then quilted some misty clouds, too.





I also used black thread and did a meander

around the striped border.





The backing is a favorite Halloween print. I love purple added to the traditional orange and black Halloween colors.




I have some fat quarters to add into the package, too. Sure hope she likes it! :-)