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Hi there – welcome to my day on the Spring is in the Air table topper blog hop.  I hope you’ve been following along and visiting the blogs on the hop that started last Monday.

when Madame Samm put out the call to join in this blog hop I quickly jumped on board as I had fun with the ghastlies blog hop at the end of last year - so thanks Madame Samm for organising another fabulous hop :)

now as you may know this spring is in the air hop was originally planned for February with a theme of love and as its autumn (fall) here in Australia anyway, I’ve stayed with the original love theme but I have ventured into the garden to take the photos of my table topper minis !

normally at this time of year the backdrop at my place would be autumn leaves but as I’m currently in tropical Queensland I’m in my dad’s wonderful garden full of amazing plants.

this is a flower that appeared yesterday morning – it certainly wasn’t there on Saturday and I have no idea what it is but it is so gorgeous I just had to show it !

ok – onto my little table topper quilts – you’ll notice I don’t actually have the table topper frame but I’m planning to get one once I get back home so my mum’s little hangers are useful in the meantime !


this is love flutter …

love flutter

I've called it love flutter as this quilt design always reminds me of butterflies :)

red and white 2 inch half square triangles – I decided to keep the quilting simple and machine quilted a diagonal line - it has a polka dot binding.

this one I’m calling love lines…

love lines

why love lines ? because love never runs smoothly !

now you can probably tell that it isn't finished ! well yesterday morning it still looked like this...

I wasn't sure I'd get it finished but thought I'd try so I sewed it together and it took me a while to decide what to do with the quilting - anyway, after putting quilting marks all over it in my decision making, I decided to rinse it to get rid of the marks - and can you guess what happened ?

eeekkk !  yes, you guessed it - one of the colours ran - only one but its in two of the lines.

so maybe I should rename it life lines now - cause life definitely doesn't run smoothly :)

I'm glad I discovered it now rather than after I'd finished it and put it in the wash later !  so I'm going to unpick the offending blocks and their neighbours and I won't be using that particular fabric again !

again, I used red and white half square triangles but these are one inch and I decided to use a sashing between them - as its only a small quilt I wanted to break up the rows of zig zags - and after all my pondering I've decided to hand quilt straight lines in the sashing with white perle thread.

so onto my last quilt and this one is love struck…

love struck

well, being a lightning zig zag block how could I call it anything else !

ooops...it might look better the right way up ! oh well, either way I suppose :)

love struck - right way up ?

this one is done with 2 inch white squares and I hand quilted it in red variegated perle thread  - I love how the quilting really outlines the strikes.

this quilt is from a tutorial by Jenn who blogs at Jenn of all trades but mine are smaller blocks.

so there you have my table topper mini quilts - they all measure 12 x 14 and I can’t wait to get a table topper frame to display them on.

thanks for visiting me on this blog hop, I hope you enjoyed my little quilts and make sure you check out the other bloggers showing their minis today.

Christine
Carol
Patti
Wendy
leanne - you're here !
Elaine
Judy 

the hop runs until this Wednesday and you can find the full schedule here.

be sure to visit Madame Samm to check out the fabulous prizes to be won for hopping along with us - leave a comment on Madame Samm's blog on the last day to be in the running !