Midget Quilt for the Blogger's Quilt Festival

 I wasn't quite sure which quilt to enter in the Blogger's Quilt Festival.

I sat and pondered for the longest time before remembering that I had just finished off my Midget Blocks Quilt not so very long ago.  This was a sampler quilt based on a series of free blocks posted at Sentimental Stitches.  Each adorable little block finishes at 4.5 inches! I added in a few blocks of my own along the way and even ordered an extra set of midget patterns when I realized that I really like doing applique.
The best part of making this quilt was enjoying other quilters working on the same blocks.  We each tried to post a block each week on Tiny Tuesday.  After two years of making a block a week, I finally put them all together with a wonky setting to hide size variations and decided to add a border of 2 inch squares that had been collected from each block along the way.

 Quilting it was the most difficult part.  I finally decided to just take a deep breath and go for it.  While the quilting isn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, it is all mine and I loved every minute.

I used a background stiple in the white space and minimal quilting within the blocks themselves. Lots of stitch in the ditch was a slow and patient process.
Head over to the Bloggers Quilt Festival to check out lots of beautiful quilts.