Modern Mini Challenge

This quilt was originally called the Color Wheel Quilt, but it has come to be known to me as  "The Quilt That Fought Me". My son might call this mini "Visual Tension", because it's just a little bit off, and he once told me one of my projects had visual tension because one thing was askew. My original idea for this quilt came from an idea to combine these two quilts from the Purl Bee website.

http://www.purlbee.com/the-purl-bee/2007/10/6/new-purl-color-wheel-quilt-custom-fabric-bundle.html

http://www.purlbee.com/mini-quilt-golden-wreath/

I used lots of rainbow charm squares to paper piece the wedges in this quilt; red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. The piecing was a breeze and even sewing the curves was a fun and new experience. I used the curved piecing foot I bought at Road to California a few months ago, which made sewing the wedges to the curves super simple, with no puckers and no pins!

So at this point I am feeling pretty good and all I have to do is layer and quilt this mini. That's where the problems started to occur. I first tried to free-motion quilt and did about half the quilt and hated it. So out came the seam ripper. Then I decided to do some concentric circles...another failure andthe seam ripper came out again.

Finally, I quilted with a serpentine stitch about one inch apart. It turned out ok and will be a nice reminder of my frustration as it hangs on my sewing studio wall. If it's any consolation (to myself) I really like the IKEA pillowcase fabric I used as the backing and the little safety pins fabric used for the binding.

Now I just have to pray the Random Number Generator likes me, because with all the gorgeous entries in this challenge that will be the only way I will have a chance to win one of the fabulous prizes.

This quilt measures 24 3/4" square.

Thanks for stopping by,

"di"