Rainbow Mini Swap
Hello! Today I would love to show you my Rainbow Mini Swap handmades that I mailed out this week. They are going via air mail to a country far far away and although I am sad to see them go I hope they will bring their new owner much joy.
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| Rainbow Hexagon Mini designed, English Paper Pieced by hand, machine appliqued and machine quilted by Anita LaHay of Daydreams of Quilts. |
I coloured my design with pencil crayons on hexagonal graph paper before I started. That way I knew how much of each colour I needed. (But I made enough for four of these quilts hoping to make another for myself in the future.) I hand basted all my hexagons and then hand sewed them together into the design I had planned. (I had also hand traced and hand cut all the hexagon papers but that was a year ago during extreme boredom at work with nothing to do.)
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| A closer look. I machine quilted the mini in my Juki with a feathers motif. |
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| I saved all the tiny off cuts from my hexagons and made a rag rug style mug rug. |
Some of my Instagram friends wanted to know how I did this so in case you wish to know too I will tell you here. I got a piece of white fabric and cut it to mug rug size. I also layered in batting and backing cut slightly larger in behind. I laid out all my tiny pieces on the white fabric. Then I carried the whole thing very carefully to my machine which was set up with the quilting table around the needle so the mug rug could lie flat while I was quilting it and not flop off the machine (which would cause all the tiny pieces to fall off). I could have spray basted but I didn’t want to risk a big sticky mess. Then I machine quilted with a wavy stitch I chose from my stitch selection guide. This way I sewed down my pieces and quilted at the same time. There are raw edges sticking out every which way and that was intentional. I then trimmed it, attached the binding and hand sewed the binding to the back. Voila! Rag rug mug rug. (Say that 5 times fast!)
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| A Rainbow coloured zipper pouch for another swap package extra. |
I had one last glorious rainbow zipper which I sewed into a zipper pouch for my swap partner. I am now on the hunt for more rainbow zippers. I got these a Fabricland a few years ago but I don’t know if they still stock them. This zipper got lots of positive comments on Instagram!
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| The Rainbow mini in indoor light. |
Here is one last look at the mini. I am so pleased with how it turned out. I will definitely need to make one for myself now.
I am linking this project up with The 2015 Finish Along. This was number 8 on my Q1 Goals List.
Your mini is really lovely. I certainly would be pleased if it was coming my way!! Love that rainbow zipper too. I have seen some at zipit on etsy if you can't find them any more
What a great mini! I really like the curves of the quilting against the angles of the hexagons. The technique you used for the mug rug is something I would love to try. It sounds like a great way to use all those little pieces!
I love your mini so much! There's been lots of great rainbow ones popping up in my feed making me wish I joined that swap! I'd have loved to receive yours!!
I'd try Zipit on Etsy for more of those zippers. I think I saw they had rainbow teeth zippers last time I was there. I've ordered from them in the past and received great service. Good luck and love the swap goodies!
Thank you Monique! I never thought to look on Etsy! Silly me! I will take a look!
I love EPP and always cut out my own as it is so much cheaper, although dull to do. The quilting you have done really looks lovely. x
Your projects are beautiful. Love the rainbow teeth zipper.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/101143856/ykk-excella-rainbow-teeth-zippers-7-inch?ref=sr_gallery_22&ga_search_query=zipit&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery
Thanks for the Zipit info. They do have them!
Good heavens!! (looks at her Wips with shame) Everything you do is just incredible!! These are just wonderful!! X!
Thank you Andrea! I couldn't email you back (no reply) but if you check back here I wanted to say I really appreciate your comment and the link to the zippers! I have favourited the listing on Etsy so I can find it around payday. 😉
I adore my rainbow zippered pouch that I won from you ages ago, I also looked for them and found some on Etsy for like $12 a piece, I was like WOAHIE!
So pretty – and the quilting is stunning!