Totally FAB Little Quilt

Last week I received this wonderful little quilt from Linda (Quack Quack 22) in the Fab Little Quilt Swap, and today dawned bright and beautiful (for a change) so I could take some photos.  I have to say that this is a TOTALLY FAB little quilt.  I love it!  Isn't it gorgeous???  I can't even imagine making all those flying geese, but I love how they turned out.  I love that it is so colorful.  I love the tree in the center.  I love the piping around the center medallion. I love the stripey binding. 

Truly, I just love this quilt.  Linda did such a great job.  It is gorgeous, and executed so beautifully.

Check out the jewels she added for the leaves on the tree.  And the flying geese in a circle are amazing.  I've been too intimidated to try this technique yet.  But look at those perfect points.

And the label is just as amazing as the front.  Look at all those teeny tiny flying geese.  Each one can't be more than an inch and a half.  I could just sit and stare at the label!  It's really a shame I can't look at both sides at the same time.

This is the lovely package she sent me.  See the hoop?  It would have been a lovely swap item on its own.  It is just beautiful.

And I love the saying she chose.

The happiest of people
Don't have the best of everything
They just make the
Best of everything!

Words to live by.

Thank you, Linda for a wonderful swap!

Fab Little Quilt

I'm playing along in the Fab Little Quilt Swap - FLiQS for short (why do we love acronyms, I wonder?) - and this is the little quilt I made.

The pattern is from 99 Modern Blocks which is a great resource for ideas for modern quilt blocks.  This particular block, called "Wedged In" in the book (they are in alphabetical order) has fascinated me since I flipped through the book the first time.  I'm calling my offering "Ripples of Love", since the way the blocks flow out from the center, getting ever larger reminds me of ripples in a pool.

And then when  Dawn (guiltyquilter) made a pillow for PTS8 from the pattern, I knew I just had to make one myself.  Dawn modified the pattern, making it a little bigger and substituting larger fussy cut blocks for the teeny tiny squares in the middle.

I used her fussy cut idea with some little medallions in a bit of Kumari Gardens fabric I had lying around, and built my blocks from there.  The small drunkard's path blocks are appliques and were hand sewn.  (Yes, they were kind of a pain.)

Then, as you can see, I added some rows of hand quilting to give it interest, picking up some of the colors in the blocks.

It is far from perfect, but overall, I really like it.

I hope its new owner will enjoy it too.