P.S.: Post Script or Postage Stamp?

This (see bottom-most photo) is the doll quilt I made for my granddaughter #1. If you image-search for doll quilts on Pinterest, you may be able to spot my inspiration for the front of the quilt....though, the added store-bought "P.S." embroidery bits were my idea. Love that the P.S. can be both "Postage Stamp" and "Post Script". I used to write and mail lots of letters and hardly even one left my hand without a post script of some description. 

I found a printable pattern download by Cotton Confections for this 16 blade Dresden Plate online. It was perfect for my needs since I was already working with only four fabrics for the project.

What had begun as a notion to use the scraps from granddaughter #1's first birthday party's rag bunting decorations, became multiple forays to Hobby Lobby for still more of the same fabric prints for what became what I refer to as my Raggedy Trilogy. But that's another (two) stories/posts.

Free Motion practice was another mini bonus!

Onward with the mini doll quilt at hand! Having completed the front of the little project, I needed a backing, and decided to use sheeting and to try my hand at a Dresden Plate block. This was my first, and I found it so addicting that I made multiples for the backing of a larger (crib size) quilt... also for granddaughter #1. Actually, the crib quilt may become the girls' "birthday quilt" to be used on birthdays...because while I was working on these quilts, granddaughter #2 was born to the same household. 

Well, that's that. Except, of course...

P.S. May your mini, mini projects be as fun for you as this one was for me.