The Summer Themed Mini Quilt Swap cont...

The person chosen to receive a mini from me was Noela and as I know it has arrived at her place, I am now going to reveal what I made. 

I used a Craftsy Pattern that I had noticed earlier this year, and put it in my wish list. When I started wondering how I would interpret the topic, I came up with quite a few ideas but nothing in particular. Then one day, just out of the blue, I remembered the stitchery pattern on Craftsy...it was a little vintage caravan. Now even though my parents always rented a house for beach holidays or we went to my godparents' farm in the country, I still associate caravans with summer and summer holidays. 

So I purchased Jodie Rackley's pattern and traced the design on to some off white homespun during FNwF last month. I purchased some lovely 'cloud' fabric for the border but as I worked the embroidery I realised that the cloud fabric 'would not work'...but some caravan fabric that I already had would work quite well instead...so...the finished mini, using the 'Retro Camper' design.

I used cloud fabric on the binding and a lighter cloud fabric as the backing. 

Thank you to Cheryll for organising this fun swap of 3 mini quilts this year. 

The recent Mini Swap...

In a previous post I wrote about the Mini quilt I made for Peg; I realised too late that the theme of this swap was not just Embroidery but there should be an inspirational message stitched into the mini...my mini was 'wordless'. 

But Lyn (no blog) who made a mini for me  was definitely 'on the ball' and read the instructions more thoroughly than I had! I was absolutely thrilled when I opened Lyn's parcel...have a look at this beautiful mini...

And that wasn't the only item in the parcel...look at these lovelies...just gorgeous!

Many thanks to Lyn for all these beautiful items and thank you to Cheryll once again, for organising this fun swap.