Test Run

To check and make sure I have enough cutter quilt pieces to use for next year's calendar project idea, I hauled out the bin and rifled through it.

I think I have enough, but I also have some unusable, unremarkable patchwork pieces in my stash that would also serve.

I took one piece of a presewn quilt that came in a thrifted lot of fabric and decided to try making one embroidered and beaded mini quilt in an evening.

Rather than use this busy floral side, I decided to flip it over and use the blue underside. I let the idea come to me and just played with it.

Here's the finished mini quilt, which took about 3 hours to make. This idea will take about twice as long as my crochet calendar mood blanket to make every day, and I probably won't have time enough every day to do all the embroidery and beading I did on this one. That's not discouraging to me; I want to do more quilting. My arthritis may become an issue, but then I can use the sewing machine instead of doing hand work.

It took me one night to make up seven different foundations for mini quilts out of cutter pieces and some vintage embroidered linen scraps. I could make up 365 of them if I work on that every day from now until January 1st. Only now I'm thinking, what am I going to do with them once I finish the project? Back to thinking it over again. :)