Our challenge for the month of January, was to follow this tutorial by My Rainboots are Red, for a Kaleidoscope mini quilt.
I bought the Kaleidoscope smart plate ruler from Sharon Sebrow.
Sharon sent me a bonus quilt, which was really nice!
I made lots of half square triangles with my pretty scrappy fabric.
Do you notice my design board?
I use them all the time!
Lori Holt has a tutorial on her blog, Bee in my Bonnet.
You can make them in any size you want :)
This is what the ruler looks like. (ignore my legs...)
I cut and cut and cut...
One of my blocks was imperfect, but I kept it.
I thought it might add some extra interest :)
I don't know if this is normal or not, but my corners were all cropped a little bit.
I love this cute little block!
I sewed a triangle to each of the 4 corners to form a square.
Forgot to take a photo of that step...sorry.
Forgot to take a photo of that step...sorry.
Yay, my squares are all placed and ready to sew together!
I enjoyed machine quilting with my walking foot.
I realize that some of my low volume fabrics weren't pale enough to stand out as much as they should.
The mini measures approximately 21" square.
I used it to decorate the table during my lesson at church, and some of the young women noticed it!
I backed it with a Japanese hexagon print, and the binding is a bright pink that I pulled from one of the scraps.
The tutorial was excellent, I think I would have been lost without all the wonderful photos.
I really enjoyed this technique and am anxious to make something else using it :)
