Merry Moda Christmas!

This morning while scrolling Facebook, I saw Aurifil's post asking if I had entered the Moda/Aurifil mini challenge. Well, no! I hadn't heard of it until then! I quickly followed the link to read about the challenge. Use a Moda precut and Aurifil thread to make a mini quilt - by the end of today!

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I picked the Merrily charm pack that I bought this summer when vacationing in Minnesota and a handful of coordinating 50wt Aurifil threads (#2605 Grey, #2021 Natural White, #2892 Pine, #2255 Dark Red Orange, and #2324 Stone).

I searched the internet for a "deer outline" and printed one that I liked so that it was 4" tall.

I pressed Heat-N-Bond Lite to the back of three dark colored charm squares from the pack, then traced and cut the deer silhouette from the charms. I was careful not to make any errors when cutting and did not cut from the edge so that each resulted in whole deer pieces.

I then pressed both the positive and negative fabric cutouts onto light colored charm squares from the pack.

I arranged the deer blocks with some plain charm squares into a 3 x 4 layout and stitched them together using 50wt Aurifil #2324 Stone.

Once sewn together, I pin basted the quilt top with Warm 100 batting by The Warm Co. and a fat quarter of gray dots from the Modern Background Essentials collection by Brigitte Heitland for Zen Chic for Moda that I had in my stash.

I switched to my walking foot on my Juki TL-2010Q and started in on the quilting using the "Squiggles" design that I learned about from Christa Watson in her Piece and Quilt with Precuts book. I love the texture it creates, and it's a forgiving design that doesn't have to be perfect!

I used four colors of Aurifil for the quilting (Grey, Natural White, Pine, and Dark Red Orange). I did not applique or stitch around the deer. I made the quilt to be a wall hanging and don't plan to wash it, so I decided it would be okay to leave the pieces ironed on as is.

I used a red stripe from the "Hidden Cove" collection by Windham Fabrics from my stash for the binding. I used 2 1/4" double fold binding again - it's definitely becoming my default size now instead of 2 1/2".

The quilt finished about 14" x 18 1/2". This is my 40th quilt finish for the year! I love how this mini turned out! It's going straight on the wall for Christmas!

Hopefully my mini is randomly picked as the winner so I can get even more Aurifil thread! UPDATE: I didn't win this contest, but I'm still very happy with this mini! I'm already planning a throw quilt using the same design!

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