Remember the train wreck?
Well, sometimes it takes a few days to clean up the wreckage,
put things back in order, and make sure everyone is healing.
Yesterday, being the one playing cleanup, I was beat and a little discouraged.
Enter this happy little quilt:
Behindyoureyes on Flickr sent me this Mini Coin Quilt, using patriotic colors.
It’s perfect-approriate for my day and wonderfully timed!
Thank you so very much, behindyoureyes!
Ok, so I can safely say that this has ranked among the toughest weeks of my life.
It’s been a train wreck.
Sad thing was, I saw it coming, smiled, and I even think I waved to the conductor!
I’ll stop short of whining, because you get the idea.
While it was a stressful week, I made sure to package up and send off
a little surprise for my swap partner over on a flickr swap group.
I took really good pictures of the process for you all a few weeks back,
and those are the ones you’re seeing throughout this post. 
EXCEPT…..I forgot to take a final picture of the finished quilt.
”Congratulations, you’ve just earned your Uh-Durr patch!” 
Full episode here and here.
I hope the “in progress” pictures work for you, and a link to my partner’s flickr photo.
Hopefully I can come back and laugh, but right now,
I’m amazed….just speachless.
Stress apparently renders me flighty.
Update: 4/29 I’m feeling much more like myself now!! This little quilt was a blast to sew. I started with my scrap-alicious pile pictured here, sorted and mixed until I had the right colors represented, then sewed rows. I interviewed white as the background, but it didn’t sparkle, so, I tried several different solids before settling on the aqua. It’s actually Kona Blue, which looks aqua to me. Anyway….. Once that was done, it was time to figure out quilting. Remember, this little baby is 8 inches by 12 inches, so it needed machine quilting that didn’t overwhelm its size. I tried out decorative stitches on the Bernina 830 (♥), which is the sample you see above, to find one the right size stitch. This one is a 5mm, so it came out looking like teeny tiny embroidery…..yeah! After that, my daughter and I admired it a few days. We decided it needed something, especially to go to a hip, modern quilter like my swap partner. The 3-D element came to me later when I went to this quilt show. (Did you know there is a 3-D home television now? Mr. Wonderful says I *need* it, teeheehee! Do I? No, but he seems to!!) There are folded and sewn flower patterns all over the web, but I love this source the most. And the button? Totally a cute factor! So, with a bit of binding and a sleeve, along with some goodies, it was sent, never to be photographed by me…..alas!
I can’t show you what I’m working on, per se, but I can show you bits and pieces.
Sorry for the second photo’s quality. I was trying for way too close there!!
This has been a fun little project, and I highly recommend
working with scraps and sewing a tiny quilt every now and then!
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