More Mini's

Next up on the mini quilt train is this super cute apple design by Lori Holt. I fell in love with the apple's from the Quilty Fun book the moment I saw it and immediately put it on my 'sewing to do list'. 

The pattern originates from a full size quilt, but I knew exactly what I had in mind for these delicious apples ;) I also already had the fabrics chosen in my head (this usually happens when I plan my quilt projects). I'm so happy with how it looks in my kitchen on my vintage yellow cabinet. You can see it from the living room, so it's nice to have a touch of Lori's fun and happy personality in my home now.

One of the reasons I love making mini's at the moment is being able to try out new quilting designs without committing to a huge piece. For this one I tried a scallop design - I adore anything scallop! I used an acrylic circle template to draw half circles with a water erasable pen and followed the lines with my walking foot.

Ok, so to those who think I'm completely addicted you're right. I am, but to my defence this one was made before Christmas, I just haven't got round to sharing it! Again, from the Quilty Fun book, this one was a gift to my nana, who uses it as a table centre in her kitchen - she has a blue theme going on in there so I thought I'd stick to the colour theme. We all like a bit of matchy, matchy in our family.