“Plus” mini quilts from September – 2020.10.25

I keep a spreadsheet with a listing of all the quilts I have made, including the year made, the name, the width and height. This makes it easy for me to determine which of my quilts fit the requirements for a call for entry. Here’s a partial view of of my spreadsheet.

I was updating my quilt inventory spreadsheet, and realized I forgot to blog about my entries to the most recent Curated Quilts mini challenge – Plus quilts. I did post them on Instagram, but not on my blog. I like do both because it’s much easier to search on my blog for information about a quilt I made in the past, than it is to scroll back through my IG posts.

So I’m posting about them now. When I first saw the color palette for this call for entry in mid-August, I pulled some fabrics out, but was uninspired until a couple of days before the deadline in September.

My first entry was Peach Plus, 11.5 x 11.5 inches. My construction method was improv, and I didn’t know exactly what it was going to look like, or what the final size would be. I improv pieced the corners from the outside edges in toward the center. Then I pieced the plus in the middle and squared it up. I finished it with echo-quilting in each section.

My second entry was Plus Divided, 11 x 11 inches. For this one I was very precise, using a freezer paper pattern. I constructed each section separately, then used 1/4″ fusible strips to adhere the bias tape outline in place.

Then I matched up the 2 sections and sewed them together along the diagonal line. I quilted the aqua section with pink thread, and the blue-gray section with peach thread.

As is often the case with these mini challenges, I like the second one I made better than the first one. Neither of them was selected for the magazine, but now I have two more minis in my quilt inventory.

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Thanks for stopping by. Today, I’m linking up with these blogs – click on the links below, where you’ll find many other creative and inspirational projects.

• Nina-Marie’s Off the Wall Friday
• Can I get a Whoop Whoop? by Confessions of a Fabric Addict