Mini Medallion - finished!

I found this beautiful mini medallion QAL series at 

Clover and Violet's blog.

The mini medallion was designed by Chrissie at Sew Lux.

The QAL was six months, which included a border every month.

I chose a selection of oranges, aquas and greys, and I used a cursive text print, the same one throughout the quilt.

All of the tutorials can be found on my Pinterest board here.

I highly recommend to everyone, to make this mini.

The directions are really easy to follow with photographs for all the steps.

I backed the quilt with an orange Lila Tueller print I had in my stash.

I like it a lot!!!

I machine quilted the mini with a straight stitch.

I've tried that before and really enjoyed the process.
I even used this mini as a table topper when I taught the Young Women today :)

For those of you who follow my blog regularly, I've made a decision to post twice a week instead of three times.

It's just too difficult trying to make projects to blog about so often!

In January, I will only blog once a week.

This way, I will be able to show you tutorials and things I can teach you about.

I hope I won't let any of my regular blog readers down by doing this.

Mini Medallion - September

This Mini Medallion Quilt Along has been so much fun!

I look forward to it every month.

This is the fourth month, the third border, with 2 months left.

Chrissy Lux from Sew Lux Fabric has designed this mini medallion as a guest on the blog Clover and Violet.

Here are my 4 orange fabrics for the snowballs.

It took me a while to cut out all the pieces I needed.

96 - l l/2" squares from my text background fabric!

First step, add a gray border, easy!

Drew a diagonal line on all 96 squares, watched the movie "Sabrina", so it took me a little longer than it should have to draw all my lines :)

Sewed all the squares onto all 24 squares, by chain stitching.

Quite a thick stack, a lot of sewing :)

A great big pile of scraps, unfortunately they're too little to use.

Success!

My mini medallion, after the fourth month.

I wonder what Chrissy will design the next two months!

I have always wanted to make a quilt with text for the background.

I may have overdone it a little, but I still like the look :)

Mini Medallion - August

This is the third section of the border in the mini medallion series, for the month of August.

There will be 3 more additions given once a month, through the month of November.

These are my fabric selections for the border.

The first border is in gray, I think it goes really well with the text print and offsets the brightness of the orange.

I made 16 flying geese blocks and layed them out, altering the blue prints.

All finished, I really love this medallion.

You can find all 3 month's instructions on my Pinterest board, here.

Mini Medallion QAL, June and July

I showed you the 12 fat quarters I chose for my Mini Medallion.

This QAL is a mystery, we get a little bit each month, from June to November.

This is my first layout, and I love the text print for the background.

This is the center block, the QAL for June.

It wasn't very time consuming :)

I love how the border uses all 4 prints of aqua.

Krissy, the designer, uses a different technique for joining them. 

This is July's completed block, a little more detailed than the center block.

Notice the rotating prints of orange, I think it adds a lot of interest.

The August addition to the medallion will be released today, you can find it at Clover and Violet, here.

You can find all of the mini medallion posts on my Pinterest board.

Mini Medallion Series

Have you heard about the mini medallion quilt along?

It's being hosted at Clover and Violet, and is written by Chrissy from Sew Lux Fabric.

They post once a month, it began in June and ends in November.

I am going to start mine tomorrow, this is the stack of fabric that I chose to make the mini medallion quilt.

I'm a little behind, but I don't think it will be very hard to catch up.

It is a mini after all, and we are given 6 months to complete it.

I have a Pinterest board dedicated to the Mini Medallion, here.

I had a great time choosing my fabrics, and look forward to sharing my progress with you :)