Little Art

Last week, we happened by a free little neighborhood art box! You know we were already familiar with little free libraries, but art? That was new to us, and I found it irresistable. 

Of course I had to go home and make a mini quilt for it pronto. I used scraps of Carolyn Friedlander fabric and started in an improv log cabin one-block quilt. 

I quited it with an angled grid in gold thread, and when we were back in the vicinity yesterday, we dropped it off. It was a really good feeling to add the little quilt to the other art in the box, yes strange realizing I probably wouldn't know where it would end up. But I was ok with that!

I've since learned from owner @freelittleartgalleryedmonds that it's the very first mini quilt to be left in their box. Yay!

One last note... the day before we were going to add the little quilt to the art box, I remembered my intent to include Kona Rich Red in every project for a while, so I took a few minutes to machine-applique a tiny red patch onto the quilt. I decided not to rephotograph it, but you can see the red patch, which is quilted with one 'X'. 

I had put one of my small labels on the quilt's back, which was printed with both my name and A Quilter's Table. It wasn't too long after we left the quilt that the FLAG Edmonds was posting it on IG, which was really fun to see, plus it was nice that we were then able to connect there as well. Anyway, a random but fun addition to our week.