Modern Mini Completed!

So happy to say that I have finally completed my Modern Mini Quilt!  When I saw that Ellison Lane Quilts was having a modern mini challenge I had to jump on board and design one of my own.  I came up with this.

By the bridge that crosses the Cedar Creek at
Double Trouble State Park.

Now I decided to take the word challenge literally and go all out on this mini!  This mini quilt is made with hand appliqued hexagons  that I made out of quilters lame with paper templates.  Each hexagon is a different color.

Under the bridge.

After I hand stitched the hexagons on I decided to hand quilt the entire thing.  I began by stitching around the hexagons and then moved out in concentric lines, almost like ripples in water.  (I have a slight obsession with water!)  The stitching was done with a light pink pearl cotton.  (Did I mention that I love pink too?)

A nice up close of around the hexagons.

It took me a few days to complete the hand stitching and my goodness I am not sure if I will do this much of it again.

I bound this quilt with the quilters lame in the darker pink that I used as one of the hexagons.

A good closeup of the corner with the stitching. 

The backing is the same kona cotton in white that I used for the front and I used 100% cotton batting.  The finished size is 19.75" x 22.5". I added little tabs in the corners of the back to make it east to hang.

Hanging on an old building at Double Trouble State Park

Once it was all completed I decided that I just had to take the pictures by the water so I headed to the park and had some fun and almost dropped it in the creek at one point (and it is cedar water so that would have been very very bad!).  I'm not sure if you can tell that I had a lot of fun taking pictures of it at the park.

I think that this shows the stitching nicely.  

So now I will be linking up the the Modern Mini Challenge.  Go over and take a look at all the amazing quilts that were designed for this challenge!

Edit:  I am also linking up to Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story.  More quilty goodness to admire!