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Burst Mini Finish

My Burst Mini is finished. It’s been awhile since I’ve had a Friday finish, so I’m feeling very happy.

Burst Mini Finish - The photo of my Burst Mini, taken in my quilt room - piecefulthoughts.com

You might recall this photo that I showed you in my earlier post. I took this in my quilt room; the quilt top is pinned to my wall. Wait until you see the new photos that I took in the morning hours on our deck.

Burst Mini Finish - My Burst Mini, named Purple Sage, all finished. I used straight line quilting to match the geometric design of the quilt. The quilt pattern is by Quilting Jetgirl. - piecefulthoughts.com

Are you as surprised as I am at the difference in color?! The purple in the morning light is so pretty. This is definitely a better capture of the colors of the fabrics.

Initially I quilted a spiral in each of the larger squares. However, I made a huge mistake and ended up picking out the stitching. That’s for another blog post!

Using Aurifil 50 wt. thread in Violet (#2520), I echoed the squares, stitching about an inch apart. When both squares were stitched, it created a fun design in the smaller patterned square.

Burst Mini Finish - A close up of the stitching in the squares of my Burst Mini - piecefulthoughts.com

In the dark purple borders, I continued with straight line quilting using Aurifil 50 wt in Dark Violet (#2582).

Burst Mini Finish - Close up photo of the quilting detail. I used Aurifil thread, 50 wt. in dark violet - piecefulthoughts.com
Burst Mini Finish - Another close up of the quilting detail using Aurifil 50 wt. thread in dark violet - piecefulthoughts.com

I just couldn’t use the dark purple for the quilt back. I had this pretty batik in my stash that worked well.

Batik Mini Finish - A peek at the pretty purple batik fabric used for the backing of my mini quilt. - piecefulthoughts.com

The finished quilt measures 18 x 25 inches. The pattern is the Cross Check & Single Burst Mini Quilt Patterns, a PDF pattern from Quilting Jetgirl. If mini quilts aren’t your thing and you like to go big, check out her Sunburst Digital Quilt pattern. That one is on my bucket list!

This is my DrEAMi project for this month!

Linking up today with Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict; Tish at The Madd Quilter; Sherry at Powered by Quilting and Sandra at MMM!Quilts.

Enjoy your weekend, everyone! Will you be quilting?

Wendy

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