Here We Go Again

"Friendship Star Quilt" - smaller version

from "Prairie Children and their quilts"

by Kathy Tracy

Block size: 4 1/2" finish

Size: 15 1/2'" x 20"

Fabrics: Judie Rothermel's lines

Yes, we did it again.

Yes, we've just done that not too long ago.

What did we do?

chi- and I were chatting over Twitter last night,

(I know, I know, that's not what's for Twitter!),

then I was telling her I'm going to browse through

this book what Kathy was talking about

on her blog post yesterday.

And here comes chi- said,

Oh, I have that one, too!

And as she has just received her new

quilty gadget to make HSTs,

she was all excited about trying using that.

As looking at the book,

I got tempted to make

Friendship Star quilt all of the sudden

and got my Mini Bundles from TQC out

to see if I can start making it ;)

They are the Fat 16th bundles.

Yes, you heard me right.

They are "Fat 16th",

which meant to be for their

lovely little booklets

filled with cute one patch projects.

But of course it's ideal for

other miniature quilt projects, too!

I often use these bundles for my miniatures

as it's a guilt free kind of thing for me

to use, rather than chopping up

beautiful large piece of fabrics!!

Anyhow, by the time when I tweeted

back to her saying I'm just about

starting making a smaller version of

 Friendship Star quilt now!!,

she replied back,

I'm cutting the fabric right now for

that quilt, too!

What a fun!!

The reason for going with

a smaller version was just because

I wanted to frame this

fits right into the frame I already have.

And you would think

Fat 16th bundle won't go that far,

but look what I have left from the quilt top

I finished making!

I think I can easily make another

one or two miniatures

except the borders.

Well, I had to pull my Fat 8th pieces

for the borders for the one

I've finished, too.

And here is another interesting fact

I found about how long

it takes for me to make one like this.

The above are the pictures

from my tweets last night.

I looked back the timeline of Twitter

and found I started auditioning

the fabrics at 20:47 last night,

then chi- has also started

almost at the same time.

By the time when she claimed

hers is all done was 00:01

while mine was finished at 00:56.

So it took for nearly 4 hours

at my end to make this little quilt top :O

The hardest part was

to pick the borders.

It's always like that for me.

I wish I had darker brown with

smaller scale prints

for the inner borders for this one.

But it didn't just happen for

the leftover cooking :(

I still haven't made up my mind

for Twister wreath quilt's borders yet, either.

It was so much fun running

unplanned SAL on one cold winter night!

Thank you chi- :)))

We'll do that again!!

 

-- Posted from my iPhone