Here’s the mini quilt I made for the Good Ol’ Summertime Swap. It will start its journey today to my partner in the States.

I used paper piecing strips that I created to stitch the mini flying geese units. They finish at 2″ wide by 1″ high. It went together really quickly and accurately doing them this way.

For the quilting, I stitched around each goose unit and the sashing, then did free-motion loop stippling in the border. I had tried to free-motion the stitch in the ditch, but it was awful, so I ended up using the walking foot instead.

This is the first quilt where I hand-stitched the binding to the back of the quilt. I used Nadine’s Invisible Hand Binding Tutorial; it was a great help. I was slow and rather awkward at the beginning, but got much quicker and more consistent as I worked my way around.

Reminder: Today is the final mail date for the Summertime Swap. Your mini quilt should be making its way to its partner today. If you are going to be late, please email me and your partner to let us know when you expect to mail it. All quilts should arrive by the end of next week.

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