I made this mini quilt for the Rainbow Mini Swap on instagram. I started with a backing fabric designed by one of my partner’s favorite fabric designers, and I only just realized I didn’t take a picture of it! Here are the fabrics I used for the front though. I matched the lightest blue and the orange to the backing fabric and went from there.
This is a paper pieced pattern called Mercury, which is available for free on Craftsy.
Doesn’t the back look great!
Once the inside star was together I really loved it!
The borders had a lot of pieces but also came together quickly. The borders are called Goosing Borders and this is also a free pattern you can get on Craftsy.
The finished the mini with a black, gray, and white fabric for the binding and I love it. This was quilted with white Aurifil thread and I did a stitch in the ditch around the triangles in the borders and in an octagon shape around the center star.
Mercury Rainbow
18×18
The story has a sad ending though, because after I packed it up with a magazine, some extra fabric, and some French salted caramels, the only thing that arrived at my Rainbow Swap partners house was an envelope with a large cut in it. The post office here had nothing to say about it, and there was nothing they could do. I made the mistake of not insuring it, and the post office where my swap partner lives couldn’t tell anything either. It’s such a huge disappointment when something like that happens and I hope that someday it is found.
Vote for my quilt in the Blogger’s Quilt Festival Mini Quilt category! This is a twice a year online quilt festival, hosted by Amy at Amy’s Creative Side.
What an amazing mini! And it’s so very terrible that it was lost in the mail. How does that even happen?! Thankfully I guess you have lovely photos and maybe someday you’ll have it in you to make it again, this time to keep.
I don’t know what postal service you were using, US or foreign, but USPS would only have paid you for the actual cost of the materials used, unfortunately, unless you had a certified appraisal by a recognized authority. Dang, dang, dang. Such a beautiful quilt. I hope that you will make it again some day. I was told if the contents had to be identified on the outside of a package, to never indicate quilt, but to put something like fabric, or even fabric pieces totaling less than one yard (or whatever, depending on size). Do see if you can find out where to report lost and/or stolen quilts. Chances are slim of recovering, but there is always hope.
What a beautiful quilt – I love it! So sorry to hear about it being stolen from the mail – how terrible! If it helps any, there is a website dedicated to lost quilts called Lost Quilt Come Home: https://lostquilt.com/ I’m glad you got some great pictures of it before it was mailed.
What a beautiful quilt and sad ending. The workmanship was amazing. Thank you for sharing.
it’s such a shame this went missing as it a fab little quilt. I love the centre block and the goosing borders!
What a beautiful quilt, I hope the £&@? who has it feels guilty every time they look at it
Oh I am so sorry Tsoniki! Your quilt is so lovely! The colours and fabrics are just perfect for it!!!
Oh that’s such a disappointment – I bet that’s why some of the envelope packages I receive come wrapped so tightly with packing tape. I’m so glad you took such lovely photos to document your finish and thank for sharing all the links to the free patterns.