December/ January Mini Mania Challenge

Mini Mania time again......In December, because there is such a lot going on for most people we decided that we would give ourselves two  months to complete the December mini and now its time to reveal all.  As you may remember our quest this time was a sampler quilt, which had to have at least 9 blocks and to be no bigger that 20" x 20".  Once again I am going to patch all of my mini's into a large quilt at the end of the year, so knowing this I have used 16 sampler blocks.

Part of the fun in making these quilts is sorting through scraps to see what can be made.....

This is me being tidy with my scrap

Then I had to choose my blocks.... the first one I chose was flying geese

Yes I like it

on a roll

I'm like it even more 

I thought I was cracking on until I met this block....

Phew!  this one nearly drove me crazy

Believe it or not it took me about 5 hours to make this fiddly little devil.  I think it was all the teeny weeny pieces.

Eventually all blocks were done......

15 done and dusted

I needed one more block and for the life of me couldn't find one that I wanted to use,  I then remembered a swap group I used to play with ..... we used to swap 3.5" blocks, so after sorting through hundreds loads I found the cups  made by Silort and as the cups worked with my colours I added them.  If you have a few hours to waste, go and have a look at the swap group and see how brilliant the ladies are,....just remember the blocks are all 3.5" square.

Anyway back to my quilt... I added sashing and the borders

Ready to quilt

and finally

Tah Dah!!!

All of the groups  quilt can be seen here.

Whats coming next month???????  Tomorrow all with be revealed.