I originally wrote this post on 2/21/24, the day before I left for QuiltCon. It’s now 2/2724, and I will write a post soon about my QuiltCon experience, but I’ve also decided to share this post as my Favorite February 2024 Finish.

I was so excited to see the Project Quilting 15.4 Hourglass Challenge. It is such a classic design, and in the past couple years, I’ve developed quite a fondness for quarter-square triangle blocks. I knew right away that my project needed to be small as I will be on an airplane on my way to QuiltCon tomorrow. I drafted a simple paper-pieced hourglass in EQ8 and pulled out some turquoise ombre Fairy Dust fabric. I cut a six inch strip of fabric and then subcut sections of it from dark, medium dark, medium, medium light and light. I chose to use a grey Fairy Dust ombre fabric for the background. It went together fairly quickly, and then the quilting gods were smiling on me as I didn’t have any trouble lining up the left and right sections. That tends to be my Achilles’s heel when it comes to paper piecing. It confounds my mind how two sections sewn together being off just 1/32″ can look SO terrible!

I quilted it with diagonal straight lines in variegated turquoise thread (Aurafil 4663 Baby Blue Eyes) and a favorite grey thread (Aurafil 2620 Stainless Steel). Then I machine bound it using another strip of the turquoise Fairy Dust fabric. My Brother sewing machine with the walking foot was acting up, so I used my Brother sewing machine with a regular piecing foot, and the machine binding is a little rough, but hey, I got it done! I can’t tell you all how often I have to remind myself that “Done is better than perfect!”

This finished mini quilt measures 6″ square, and I have to say that I really like it (as my sister would say “warts and all”).

Linking up to Project Quilting 15.4 Hourglass Challenge. I am also linking up to Favorite Finish February 2024 Linky Party hosted by Quilting Jetgirl.