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very cute, i love it for a quilt maby u need to remove the border or a different colour

Gorgeous and so precise! Absolutely admire your talent and handwork. Stunning!

That is awesome! and tiny! and perfect!

Very pretty, I don't know if I could handle those tiny pieces!

Wow! That's beautiful! I bet it took you longer to this one than it would a larger one!!! :thumbup: There will be a perfect spot for this block!

You have a lot of patience. The pieces are so tiny. I would have never survived making one that small. It is a beautiful tiny quilt.

wow. Thats really nice. I can't even make a standard size. One of my ufos is a feathered star.

that is sooo cute! is this going to end up being a quilt?

Beautiful quilt :)

Christine

How tiny and beautiful. I want to try making mini quilts - so cute.

Wow! Does your friends auction take phone bids like those shows on TV??!!!

oh wow - so tiny and so beautiful!

Wow, I don't have enough patience to make a 10'' or 15'' block. Congratulations, you did a wonderful job.

I am amazed. May I ask what kind of machine you use to piece such a teeny tiny quilt?? It's beautiful.

Wow! Beautiful and it looks so delicate.

I am impressed. All those "little bitty pieces" put together so beautifully!! :thumbup:

Wow! You are my hero for today!

WOW that is unbelievable. Very nice. I think I'd go blind, Lordy those pieces are tiny. It's wonderful. I'd like to see what they are going to do with it.

Wow!!!! Wow!!!!! OMGosh!!!! I can't even imagine trying to do something that small! I bow before you!!! :thumbup:

Wow! The block, colors and design you used are wonderful. what makes it AMAZING, is the size. It looks so well done... I can't imagine being that exact with such small pieces!!

Do you still make 1/4 inch seams when making a miniature like this? It's amazing.

Amazing work! :thumbup:

You sure did a super piecing job. Be interesting to see the whole quilt when your group has it put together.

Thank you, everyone! To answer some of the questions -

1. It's paper-pieced. I use vellum or tracing paper, so I can see the lines through the paper. I don't stitch through the paper; I fold on the stitching line, trim to 1/8", align my next fabric to the line I just cut, then stitch right at the fold. This way I don't have to tear off paper when I'm done.

2. I use 1/8" seams when I'm stitching the sections, then when I assemble the sections together to make the star I use 1/4" seams.

3. The whole quilt is a "library quilt"; it looks like books on bookshelves, with various novelty fabrics used for the spines. Apparently the mini quilt will look like it's hanging on the back of the bookshelf, above a couple of books that are laying down.

4. I did it because my friend Lynette asked me to. She is a nurse and quilts about 30 quilts a month for one of the hospitals. The quilts go to terminally ill patients, and when they pass, the quilts are given to the family. I've read some of the thank you notes from the families and it is AMAZING what comfort these quilts give. I have a huge amount of respect and admiration for Lynette and the work she does, so when she asks me to do something, you can bet I figure out a way to do it!

I'm not sure about the auction, I'll have to ask Lynette about it. I think it takes place in October.

I actually made 2 feathered stars. The first one was 6 1/2" and was too big for the quilt, and I could NOT get some of the seams to match up no matter what I did. So I started over, shrunk the pattern to finish at 5 1/2" (once it's in the finished quilt it will be 5 inches square). I starched the snot out of the fabrics before I cut them, I used Bottom Line for both upper and bobbin thread, and I did a LOT of ripping and finessing. There's not a lot of ease or bias in pieces this small, so hyper-accuracy was important.

Thanks for looking, everyone, and please pray that the auction raises lots of money!

Nice. Looks like a lot of work.

It's lovely. Bet it is hard working with such tiny pieces.

Very nice job!!! You have MUCH more patience than I ever will!

Thanks for the detailed description of your PP technique. I will have to give it a try. Tearing off that paper is what discourages me from PP. However, I will start with a larger pattern :)

wow it is tiny and pretty