good things in small packages

I've made two more little quilts for AAQI as part of the Liberated challenge. The one on the left used more of the wedges/triangles left from cutting Dresden plates. I used curved strip piecing in a swirly b/w print to join them and machine and hand quilted it. The one at the right combines three of the free-pieced roses I made way back. I have another dozen, but they're hard to put together since the angles don't line up. These two join the string pieced one I did on the weekend and I'm going to register them asap and get them in the mail. I've found it's worth sending more than one at a time in terms of postage. I also need to name them. The one at the left sort of looks like quilts blowing in the wind, but right at this moment, my creative naming skills are a bit fuzzy.

On the weekend, I pieced together a long-promised coffee cozy for a French press coffee maker. It's just a rectangle with strings to tie at the handle part, backed with that metallic Thinsulate stuff and bound with a selvage. I find selvages are quick for binding -- I sew on the raw edge, fold over the selvage and sew it with a decorative stitch. You can see the words along the selvage on on the picture at the left, which features the back of the matching mat. As you can see, I had a dot theme going to make a bright cozy to match the morning jolt of coffee.