#mini quilt
Trend Tex Challenge 2018 mini quilt finished: Back during Easter weekend, I shipped off my Trend Tex Challenge mini quilt. I did the binding in the car drive to visit family! It will be displayed with all of the other challenge quilts during Quilt Canada this June in Vancouver.
I haven’t used much appliqué before (except for one of the first quilts I made, a Hawaiian quilt). It was really fun to experiment with a new technique like this, and a bit of a different look. I learned a little along the way and I’m generally pleased with the outcome, so to me that’s a successful project!
Quilty details:
- * 18″ square finished size
- * Used the 5 prints provided for the Trend Tex Challenge in 2018, plus a backing fabric
- *Fussy cut and raw-edge fusible appliquéd flower shapes
- * Straight line quilted with 1/4″ spacing
The mini quilts will be judged at the show and auctioned off eventually, so I won’t get this one back - but that’s okay with me! (And I’ve got the photos, anyway!)
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Trend-Tex Challenge 2018: On a side note first - I’ve been busy over the past several weeks with day-job work, so I’m a bit behind on my blog posts! I do still try to make time almost every day to work on projects even if it’s only for a few minutes - so I’ve been working away on things, just not posting about them.
So – every year for Quilt Canada, the Canadian Quilters’ Association hosts a themed mini quilt challenge, sponsored by Trend-Tex. I decided to participate this year and ordered a kit of this year’s designated fabrics, which was a mix of more modern fabrics including some Cotton and Steel prints.
The theme was “Celebrate” and I puzzled over what I would do for a while! But I decided after seeing my mom’s pressed flowers designs (she is making greeting cards with dried flowers), I decided I’d do something similar with fabric - and it could be “Celebration of Spring.” (Which seems like it’s never coming at this point, we’ve still got snow on the ground here in Ottawa!)
I tried a new-to-me technique of fusible raw-edge appliqué. I drew out shapes on paper, then traced them onto the fusible “Heat-n-Bond.” I fused them to fabric, fussy-cutting for some of the flower petals. I tried a bunch of arrangements – at first I’d wanted to do something symmetrical, then decided I am better with something a little more random! I then fused to the background fabric before quilting. More on that soon!
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