As a much-needed distraction this past fall / winter, I joined a couple of Instagram-based mini-quilt swaps but I never showed you what I made! Here’s a little parade of long-finished FOs, just for funsies – but please pardon the poor photography – most of these photos were quickly snapped in the last moments before packages were sealed!

This one was made for Amie from Sew Much Havoc. Amie said she loved half square triangles, so I tried to find a slightly unexpected way to play with them.

I love these floating HSTs, they way they gently dance around the background. I think they will definitely have to be explored more.

This mini-quilt was made for Juliet from The Tartan Kiwi – Juliet designs ridonkulous foundation piecing patterns, so designing something she would like was a little intimidating! She said she especially likes blenders, which made me happy, because so do I – definitely my favorite fabrics. Snooping around her various sites and accounts, I thought she’d like a teal / aqua (the colors she mentioned as her favorites) version of the star-hexies I made for Sew Mama Sew.

This one was especially relaxing to make, some lovely low-stress sewing while away on a quiet holiday.

In fact, I loved it so much, I was inspired to finally turn the block I made for the Sew Mama Sew tutorial into a mini-quilt for myself!

Of course I didn’t have quite enough of that binding fabric and had to piece in a scrap –

– but let’s pretend I meant to do it, all modern-stylee.

I’m still stitching away at my hand-pieced mini for my current swap – progress update soon!