Yesterday I sent this off up to the US as my contribution to the auction at the SAQA conference auction this coming may. The size needs to be 12″ square, and although I love working on square grids, working within one square itself is something else; I didn’t find it easy. I am looking forward to seeing heaps of these small pieces in the auction. I myself don’t feel really comfortable working so small, and am not planning a series of these….

Technical note: Despite appearance in the photo, this is a 12″ square. I am well known to be a last minute wonder, and so, in this case while DH went through the lining up and checking in procedure at the airport yesterday afternoon, I sat out in the A-C vehicle completing the addition of the sleeve, signing, and photographing the quilt before turing it over to him to mail to the organisers while he is up in the US over the coming week. Piece of cake!

In retrospect I should have laid it out on the ground against it’s muslin background to get a flat, square, image, but of course, in haste the best ideas don’t always come up in time…. I do wish procrastination wasn’t my middle name. On the other hand, since the deadline for these works is May 1st – I am running way ahead of time – and sending it up north with him saves the huge bucks Fedex would accept in return for making sure it did get there – the post here is not always 100% reliable, going either way.