summer treat mini quilt: finished!

While we have been very busy with the pool, especially the kids

 (with at least 2 h of practice everyday, and 3 meets a week!),

I have found some time to make a quilt out of the paper pieced blocks

I have been working on before the summer.

And I love how it turned out!

I am going to keep that one for myself,

very selfishly!

During the summer treats sew along,

I made 9 paper blocks following the patterns of Ellison Lane.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

I added some sashing between rows of blocks,

but not between the blocks themselves,

a few of the blocks have space around them, 

so I felt it was not necessary.

I sewed a border around the blocks of the same background color,

and finally the border that inspired the color choices.

I decided to skip bidding the quilt,

I did some simple quilting with the top and batting,

then I sewed the back to the quilted with right side together (leaving an opening)

and then turning everything right side out (hand stitching the opening close).

I finally did some real quilting, giving dimension to the ice cream.

To keep the background from "puffing out",

I wrote some words with free motion like summer, ice cream....

It is a little hard to see as I used some off-white thread,

I wanted it be subtle, may be too subtle!

I cannot wait to hang it in my sewing room!

Happy sewing!