Holiday Mini Quilt Swap: Flying Geese

Holiday Flying Geese Mini-Quilt

I'm part of the Modern Quilting group on Facebook, and joined in on a "Holiday Mini Quilt Swap" that they organized. Each person who wanted to be a part of the swap answered a questionnaire about what was their favorite holiday and what kinds and colors of quilts & fabric they like.  Then the moderators of the swap blindly assigned participants and we made them a mini-quilt! I had never made a mini-quilt before, but it sounded like fun.

I was assigned to make a quilt for a lady who loves Christmas, so I decided to use my new Flying Geese Bloc-loc ruler. Flying Geese...Christmas trees...you can decide what the squares look like to you.  Regardless, I had fun using up fabric scraps from my gift bags. For those of you who have seen my bags, do you see any fabrics that you recognize?

Stitch-in-the-ditch quilting.

I didn't want to add a whole lot of quilting to such a small quilt, and I didn't want to take away from the simplicity of the design, so I opted to just stitch in the ditch around each tree/goose.

Hanging pockets on the back of the quilt

I designed this mini-quilt to be able to be used as a small table runner, or hang on a wall.  I'd never made anything to hang, but had seen this tutorial by Lori Holt of Bee in My Bonnet. So I added hanging pockets to the back of the mini-quilt before I sewed on the binding.  Below you can see the mini-quilt hanging on the arm of my rocking chair. I simply stuck a pencil in the hanging pockets and hooked the pencil on the arm of the chair!

Holiday Flying Geese mini-quilt for the Modern Quilting FB group swap.

Specifics:
Many of the fabrics used in this quilt were from Connecting Threads holiday collections from years past.  As I said earlier, all of the fabric was in my scrap pile, so I don't have the name or collection for all of the fabrics.  I do know that I used Kona Ash for the background, bound the quilt in Kona Choarcoal, and backed it in fabric from last year's Cherry Christmas collection (Aneela Hoey).

Each block is 2" x 4" and overall the quit measures 8.5" wide x 16.5" tall.

The mailing deadline is here, so I'm sending this little project off. I really hope my partner likes it! Oh - and this was part of my Q4 Finish-A-Long. So I can already mark one quilt project off my list!