A finished mini

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I took advantage of Canada Day being Tuesday and took Monday off as well and enjoyed an extra long weekend. I did my running around on Saturday getting my oldest daughter ready for Prom. Late night waiting up for the call to pick her up and finally crawled into bed after 4 AM. The past week was hot and muggy, perfect weather to stay indoors with the air conditioner cranked. Sunday afternoon I picked up my Superman Mini Tumbling blocks. I didn't love the way I was quilting it - the blocks weren't popping, so I went back to square one and did what had been bouncing around in my head for a few weeks and made a thick border around each block. I finished off the quilting on Monday morning and had it bound, washed and photo ready by mid afternoon! I really like the way it turned out. Chris's childhood chair is a bit worn, but he decided to leave it as is instead of refinishing.

With that done I felt free to start working on something else. Mom's quilts that were for supposed to be for Mother's day have been nagging at me... I picked up the Dick and Jane and just started cutting, coming up with a layout as I went. It was pretty small so I needed to find a way to use the mini blocks as their own blocks. I played around and found what I think is the perfect layout and maximizing what I had to work with. There is a little oops in the very middle block (which was the most complicated and paper pieced) but I'm really impressed with how it turned out. I have it all together basted with pins waiting for me to start quilting. I have no clue what to do. I'm worried that if I stray from my straight line quilting I'm going to make an absolute mess of it. Let's see how adventurous I feel when I get started ... after all when it comes to stitch ripping I'm an an expert so that option is always open. ;)  I'm off to the fabric store after work to find a binding to try to match the blue. I'm really hoping to get this finished and in my mom's hands before my dad's birthday in a few weeks.

Centre Pieced Block

Wishing all my American friends a safe and happy Independence day!