Like so many others out there, I was captivated by Aneela Hoey's Girl on a Tree Swing quilt. I remember reading her tutorial on how to do the mini-quilt and bookmarking it many, many months ago. And it just stuck with me. So, now that things have settled down a little more for me this summer, I decided to give it a try.
The piecing and free-motion quilting of the scraps was a lot of fun. I liked putting everything together. When it came time to outline the tree, the apples, and the little girl, I was excited! The face was harder than I thought it'd be. But I think it turned out well enough. My girl looks like she's yukking it up about something.
Here's a close-up.
I saw so many neat versions on blogs out there that I decided to give it another try with a red-white-and-blue background. This background is also half the size as the one above (though the parts like the tree and girl are the same sizes).
And another close-up.
I'm in the process of now quilting the designs so that I'll have two little wall hanging mini-quilts in the end. It's a relatively easy project (depending on how fussy you are) and fun to do something different. I'm hoping to get the mini-quilts done in the next week or so!
I'm happy to be linking up here with Lee at Freshly Pieced today:
I hadn't see these before - very cute!
ReplyDeletei like these. both are appeal for different reasons. the top one is more orderly, the other less so, like the good child/bad child, if that makes sense. Or maybe it should be the more dare devil child.
ReplyDeleteI love their expressions!
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my favorite designs, and yours turned out great! I love her expressions. Thanks for linking up to WIP Wednesday. : )
ReplyDeleteI love how you did the background for these!
ReplyDeleteHi Mary Jo, these are brilliant! those little ladies have bags of character..oo and I love your labels too :)
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