Another Happy House Quilt

This must be the year of buying houses, because I've made so many little housewarming mini quilts!

This one is for a co-worker who loves the color turquoise.   

Tried a new quilting pattern here - wavy lines and leaves.

Headed to the housewarming party now!

Tiny Quilt #5: A House-Warming Quilt

My brother and sister-in-law just bought their first house.  Moving just a few weeks before their baby is due couldn't have been easy!  I was thinking about them a lot as they got settled and assembled all of the baby furniture.  

My favorite way to think of someone is to make them a quilt.

It was a great chance to make another tiny house block from Elizabeth Hartman's Modern Patchwork.   And to use some of the fabrics from the Modern Quilt Guild's Madrona Road Challenge.  I love these fabrics - they're so playful and sweet!

One of my goals for 2013 is to practice some more free-motion quilting patterns.  Santa Clause brought me some great books about it!  In this tiny quilt I tried some swirls, a flower, and writing the family's name in cursive.

The countdown is on - this baby is coming soon!

Tiny Quilt #4: El Nidito

I finally got to deliver my latest tiny quilt this week to a very dear friend, Hannah.  She is beginning a new job in a new city, and settling into a perfect new apartment that she's calling "el nidito" - her little nest.

Happy new chapter, Hannah!

Tiny Quilt #3: Home

Time for the next quilt in my tiny quilt series!

The design is from Elizabeth Hartman's new book: Modern Patchwork.  I used some scraps left over from a recent super secret project that I'll reveal later on this summer.

This was a chance to try out a new quilting method: dogwood.  It was a fun form of free-motion quilting and gives a sweet little floral texture.

It's official: I'm addicted!  More tiny quilts to come....

Tiny Quilt #2: Creativity

I'm continuing my tiny quilt series, and loving this process of scaling down and trying out some big ideas in a very small quilt space.

So far, I've used one word as inspiration for my mini quilts:
tiny quilt #1: hope
tiny quilt #2: creativity

This one now hangs next to my desk at the office, reminding me to bring my creative self to work.

What word would you like to see as inspiration for a tiny quilt?