Bloggers Quilt Festival Mini Rainbow Storm At Sea

I've never done the Bloggers Quilt Fedtival before and now that I can write a bit and I have a quilt I'm going to jump in!

I made it for IG: Mumziepooh and the IG Mini Swap. I was in #kaysgroup. This quilt finishes at about 12 inches by 12 inches which was the smallest dimension allowed by the IG Mini Swap. I didn't set out to make one so small it was just serendipitous, ha! I fully stalked my partner and saw a few Storm At Sea quilts on her Pinterest with comments about making one some day. She also liked stars and I saw some rainbow ones. I found a great free Storm At Sea free paper piece pattern at http://www.generations-quilt-patterns.com/support-files/storm-at-sea-quilt-blocks.pdf and then proceeded to reduce the size at least 50 percent. I don't know exactly how much as I just kept reducing it until I could fit 4 blocks onto an 8.5 x11 paper. I printed out their helpful coloring pages to figure out how I wanted my rainbow to go and then pulled fabrics.

I pieced and then frixion penned (that's a word) the quilting guide lines and then quilted the crap out of it. Some subtle stripe black binding, rainbow hearts backing, label and it was sent off! I was so pleased with how it turned out. It seemed like a little jewel sitting out on my counter. And I'm happy to report that Mumziepooh loved it :)
See all the other quilts at http://amyscreativeside.com/bloggers-quilt-festival/