25” x 30”
Finished: 2017

Materials: Assorted quilting cottons and batiks

The Boston Modern Quilt Guild hosts a mini quilt challenge every year, and the theme for both the year for the guild and the challenge was improve in 2017. We had to make a mini quilt no more than 36” square. I sat on the challenge for a while, uninspired. Eventually, at our guild retreat, I pulled out a fat quarter bundle my sister gave me for Christmas that year and just started cutting and sewing with no end goal in mind. This quilt is the result. I call it “Stumped” because I was both stumped on what to make and I find the end result resembles a tree stump. Machine pieced and quilted on my domestic sewing machine.

This quilt was made/stored in a cat-friendly, non-smoking home. All efforts have been made to keep the quilt as clean as possible.