Modern Mini Challenge Hop

I am so excited to be part of the Modern Mini Inspiration Blog Hop!!  Thank you to Jennifer for inviting me and Welcome to any new visitor's stopping by for the first time!!  I hope you stay awhile and check out some of the happy quilting goodness :)

The mini I am sharing is called Refracted Rainbows and I have to say, I just love this little mini!!

I was inspired to make this mini based on some feedback I received on my original Refracted quilt at Quilt Con.   More on that here.  So, with a new vision of rainbows, I set off.  And I am excited to share with you, the process of creating this mini :)

I used the same method as described in the tutorial, just tweaking it slightly for 6 rays instead of 5 and of course, shrinking it way down in size.  Each of these little guys finish at 2".   Aren't they just so cute and fun!

Next, it was adding a white frame to each little rainbow to set it apart and add contrast.  

Then some black sashing to tie it all together.  And here, I have some more inspiration.  Someone commented to me after it was done that it reminded them of the old Kodak logo.  Which made me think, wouldn't it have been fun to do these like the Polaroid blocks??  Yup, I just might be making another one!

With the top done, it is time to come up with a quilting design.  I really wanted to come up with a design that would help to give the idea of the Refracted Rainbow, so I went with this concept that reminds me of the effect light takes traveling through a prism.  (Oh, and if your wondering, I just added the lines to the picture in paint, I find it to be a great tool for helping me decide on quilting designs :)

And here is a close up on how the quilting turned out.  

And that is that.  One Refracted Rainbow mini :) 

I hope you enjoyed this post and feel inspired to create your own mini!!  If you are stuck on colors, rainbows are always a great place to start.  I mean, who doesn't love a good ROYGBIV quilt??

So, are you ready for the Modern Mini Challenge??

Check out this post  for all the details, including the fabulous prizes you can win just for entering!!!

Be sure to follow along with the Blog Hop for lots and lots of fabulous inspiration!!

June 5: Ellison Lane
June 6: Happy Quilting (you are here)
June 7: Swim, Bike, Quilt 
June 8: Craft Buds
June 9: From the Blue Chair and Sewing Under the Rainbow 
June 10: The Sewing Chick
June 11: Flying Blind on a Rocket Cycle and Fresh Lemons Quilts 

You will be able to link your mini up starting June 12 at Ellison Lane Quilts

PRIZES! Yup, I might have mentioned prizes. Check out these amazing goodies up for grabs.

$125 Gift Certificate to the Fat Quarter Shop

$75 Gift Certificate to the Intrepid Thread

$50 Gift Pack of Pellon Products

$50 Box of Coats and Clark Threads

(2) $50 prize packs of Dritz sewing products

$25 Gift Certificate to Christa Quilts

A Bundle of Marblehead fabrics from Fabri-Quilt

So are you feeling your mini groove??  Oh ya, It's time to start creating!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a Happy Quilting day!!

Folding and Winner

This morning I will be staring my day out by folding this massive stack of patterns for my classes this weekend.  I love seeing these turn into cute little books.  I don't know, there is just something about having a little tiny book of instructions that must makes me happy :)

I am so excited to spend the next few days teaching.  It really is one of my absolute favorite parts of this whole quilting gig :)  And check it out, the entire town of Panguitch is ready for the Quilt Walk weekend!!  Looks like it is going to be a super fun weekend!!

I also owe you all a winner!!  The winner of the $25.00 Gift Certificate from Southern Fabric is . . .

   

Congrats!!!  Have fun accumulating some Serenade!!  (I will email you shortly)
And if you didn't win, no worries.  You can always take advantage of Southern Fabrics Father's Day sale :)

Signing off now, but be sure to come back tomorrow for some Modern Mini fun :)

Squishy Yummy Goodness

I got a wonderful package in the mail  from Modern Yardage.  Modern Yardage is a new fabric company based in Salt Lake that actually prints your fabrics when you order them, cool huh :)  They have lots of in house designers with so many collections, including a lot of fantastic blender collections, to choose from.

More on Modern Yardage's fabric and what I do with it to come, think Tutorial :)  

Wood Grain

I spent the weekend trying out a new Free Motion Quilting design, which I absolutely love!!!  It is called Wood Grain and is from the Machine Quilting Negative Space with Angela Walters craftsy class.  I so enjoyed this class and really felt that I learned a lot of great helps that have given me more confidence in my quilting.

I choose to mainly focus on the "knots" which is a little different from the original design, but I like the overall effect.  The design was really easy to get the hang of and went relatively quick for such a dense design.

The design so lends itself to the quilt, which sadly I can't show anymore of for a while.  But I will say, that I am just head over heels happy with the way this quilt turned out.  So excited!!

Hope you had a fabulous weekend!!  Did you get in any time at your sewing machine??

They're Finished!! I'm Celebrating with a Giveaway!!

I have been procrastinating making my class samples for a while now.  The specific class ones weren't to bad, but the basic ones,  I just had a hard time getting excited about making them.  But, now that they are done, I am so excited!!  I got the idea at Market to display them on foam board, don't they just look so awesome!!  These will be my go to samples for the standard quilt "building blocks".  There are flying geese, half square triangles, goose in the corner, and lattice blocks.  Yippee Skippee!!!

So . . .  I feel like we need a little finish celebration!!!  And my good friend Aubrey at Southern Fabric is helping me out with that :)

You can find all the latest and greatest at Southern Fabric.  Check out these great new lines that just came in.   

Happy Go Lucky by Bonnie and Camille.   You'll find it in both yardage and precuts! 

Flats by Angela Yosten, they even have the adorable Doll and Clothing panels!!

And if you hurry, You can get an additional 10%  by using the coupon code:memorial10  (This code expires at the end of today)

And you can always find great sale fabrics, including the memorial day sale fabrics that are marked 20% and 30% off yardage and precuts!   It's a great time to get some fav's before their no longer available to get.  Maybe some of this . . .

 So . . . how about a chance to win some some free fabric from Southern Fabric??  Aubrey is sponsoring a $25.00 Gift Certificate to one lucky reader!!

So what do you have to do for your chance to win???

Leave a comment here of what you might like to spend your gift certificate on at Southern Fabric.

For a bonus entry, you can subscribe to Southern Fabric's newsletter (on the left hand column) and leave a comment here that you did so :)

That's it.  Up to 2 entries per person. Giveaway will close on  It will close on Tuesday, June 4th and a winner will be selected randomly and announced shortly after.

Thanks for stopping by and celebrating my happy finish with me :)

Linking my sample finishes up to Sarah's and Amanda's