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It's about time to pack up my swap project for the DS Quilts Doll Quilt Swap2. Things didn't start off well, as I was paired with a secret partner who loves pink. Now I confess to having a tall stack of DS fabrics, but very little pink!

Thankfully, Kirsten of gemini stitches was happy to swap DS fabrics, and before long I had plenty of pinkaliciousness for the scrappy project I was planning. (that was for you, Nicke!)

Apparently my Swoon phase had waned, but clearly wasn't over, because as you can plainly see, I made another.

Or as I like to think of her, "Pinky-Swoon".

Basically, I used Camille Roskelley's design, but snuck in even more squares and hsts, to make it scrappier yet. Kona Medium Gray served as the background, with Pinky-Swoon measuring in at 17" square. (I also down-sized the squares to 2" finished.)

Usually, the back of any project is a bit of a struggle, where I find myself asking, "Should I go easy and ho-hum, or harder (ie. longer) and more interesting?" In this case, it was an easy decision to go interesting. I mean, really, most of those pinks had traveled all the way from Australia to be a part of this project, so I might as well put them to good use. I admit, I really had fun with it.

When it came time to quilt, I was influenced by the criss-crossing straight-line I've done on recent projects {spiraled and the improv runner}. Adding to the feminine mood of the pink, I added some wavy quilting lines here and there. And to add even more interest (to me anyway), though quilted mostly with gray thread, I arbitrarily switched it out for pink. So when I mentioned wacko quilting and thread decisions last week, that's what I was referring to.

So now she's finished and it's time to say good-bye and safe travels. She's pretty much leaving me with a hankering to swoon again.

Linking up with little quilt monday, {sew} Modern Monday, Fabric Tuesday, Made By ME, and sew & tell friday.