My quiltlets are DONE

This was the most exhausting and time consuming project I have undertaken in a long time. I spent most of the week working on these. And thankfully, they are finished, mere hours before they need to be swapped. Thankfully, I don't have to go far to get them to the hostess, since it is I.
I certainly appreciate the talents of fabric artists like Kayla, Cathy J, and Dianne. I can only wish I had their talents at the sewing machine, but I don't. However, I managed to struggle through making these, and although they are nothing like what I had envisioned, and how infantile I thought they looked when I was making them, I'm really happy with how they turned out.
That's especially true when I see them all together like this.

Before I backed the pieces, I tried to scan one, but it didn't turn out too good. I actually moved the piece on the scanner as I was scanning it, but didn't realize it until I had already added the backs.

I have to admit, the camera (the one I cuss to no avail for it's lousy photos) gave a better photo of the finished piece than the scanner.

Here is a photo of the back. That's not sunlight, but a very white light in my kitchen, where I photographed all of these late, late Friday night.

If you've been following my blog, you know I dyed all the material I used in the pieces, with the exception of the pink stripes and the shiny red flowers. Everything else was made using either color washes or printer ink refills on muslin.

I backed everything with Wonder Under, then cut everything from my own hand drawn flower stencils (whoopie, since I don't draw). I stamped the faces using Staz-on.

The butterfly was made using a red foil candy wrapper and a punch. That candy wrapper was the one thing I wanted to use from the beginning. Finally, I added the buttons and Scrabble tiles. Now they are ready to go to their new homes.