Marvelous Mini Challenge - Island Batik Ambassador - Flying Geese Mini

 This month's challenge as an Island Batik Ambassador is one of my favorites - a miniature quilt challenge. I love working small and recreating pieces of the past. I did both this month, recreating an antique doll quilt and making it even smaller.

I picked the beautiful Playful Posies Collection - stacker set of 10" squares

Here I was separating the fabrics into the different colors - purple, red, yellows, neutrals, and blues.

Such a fun collection. It lives up to the Playful Posies name!

I really like how the new colors mirror the antique fabrics and give the antique a new updated look. I reduced the original by 25% to make it a bit smaller.

I machine quilted, outlined aka stitch in the ditch around the geese and the sashing but then I added hand quilting in the sashing and borders. It was nice to add a little bit of a hand touch.

Here's the antique doll quilt.  It measures 16" x 18"

And my reproduction

Playful Little Geese

11.5" x 14"

Original Design

Sandra Starley 2024

Traditional foundation paper pieced geese -fabrics by Island Batik: (Playful Posies Collection)

Backing:  IB Latte (Foundation Basics)

Batting: Hobbs Thermore Polyester Batting

Piecing Thread: Aurifil #50 weight

Quilting Thread: Aurifil #50 weight

Needle: Schmetz Quilting Needles 

                                Pieced and quilted by Sandra Starley 

***Fabrics provided by Island Batik, batting by Hobbs, thread by Aurifil, and needles by Schmetz and Smart Iron by Oliso *****

There are sew many great miniature quilts this month. Visit my fellow 2024 Island Batik Brand Ambassadors to see their new fabulous MINIS.

Brenda Alburl ~ Songbird Designs
Renee Atkinson ~ Pink Tulip Quilting

Megan Best - BestQuilter
Pamela Boatright ~ PamelaQuilts
Susan Deshensky ~ Lady Blue Quilts
Brittany Fisher ~ Bobbin with Brittany

Preeti Harris ~ Sew Preeti Quilts
Mania Hatziioannidi ~ Mania for quilts

Jane Hauprich ~ Stitch By Stitch Custom Quilting
Kim Jamieson-Hirst ~ Chatterbox Quilts

Victoria Johnson ~ Forever Quilting for You
Connie Kauffman ~ Kauffman Designs

Connie Kresin Campbell ~ Freemotion by the River

Emily Leachman ~ The Darling Dogwood
Denise Looney ~ A Quiltery
Leah Malasky ~ Quilted Delights
Maryellen McAuliffe ~ Mary Mack Made Mine

Lisa Pickering ~ Lisa’s Quilting Passion
Sarah Pitcher ~ Pitcher’s Boutique
Lana Russel ~ Lana Quilts

Julia Schweri ~ Inflorescence Designs
Gail Sheppard ~ Quilting Gail

Carol Stanek ~ Stitch with Color
Sandra Starley ~ Textile Time Travels
Jennifer Thomas ~ Curlicue Creations
Suzy Webster ~ Websterquilt