VMQG Mini Quilt swap

we had our VMQG meeting last night and did our mini quilt swap - what a lot of wonderful quilts changed hands!  Wow!  I am always blown away by the creativity of everyone.

This was a secret swap - we knew who we were creating for, but not who was making for us.  I consider myself extremely luck to have been matched up with Terry Aske - Terry does such incredible work - just check out some of her work in her gallery and in her Etsy shop. She's a good friend and travelling buddy and I am thrilled that she made me this quilt!

This is the incredible piece I received

it's MINE!

 I am really loving teals and turqouise these days and Terry came through!  Isn't if fabulous? I love everything about it, including the sections of the quilting done in different colours - the white against the teal as shown below, and a darker turquoise on the lighter fabric, visible in the above photo on the right hand side.  PERFECT!!!!  Thank you Terry!

love the bit of white against the turquoise

What is really fun is that I got Terry's name to create for!  Terry's preferences were for asymmetrical, improv piecing, flying geese, black, white, chartreuse, and definitely no Sunbonnet Sue's!  (That was a good thing as I would have had a really hard time bringing myself to make something with that little girl on it!)  The other requests were right up my alley, so I put together this little quilt and then quilted the heck out of it!

(sorry about the crappy picture - meant to take a better one before giving it away, but you know how that goes...)

For much better pictures of the front and the back, please go check out Terry's post!  She is not only a wonderful friend and quilter, she also knows how to take good pictures!

I think I still have a few more quilts in me using the long arm rulers - they are so much fun!
(I've also got to start working on my photography skills...)

Linking up to TN&TN this week.

Happy quilting!
Janet