Mini Monday - DrEAMI Moment - Small Seascape Series

Welcome to another edition of Mini Monday!!  I'm stopping by today to confess that I just MIGHT have lost my mind.  Have YOU found it?  Sandra @ Mmm Quilts would call this a DrEAMI moment, but I missed the Link Party.  Drop Everything And Make It!!

Here's what happened...

After making my quilt for the Salt and Sand Blog Hop, I turned my attention to the fabric pull (for what I thought was going to be) my prize giveaway project for the Hop:

I soon put that first set aside and pulled another...

... And began working on a small seascape quilt:

I cut free form curves and stitched them together...

... To create wet sand and the beginning of the sea:

Next, I tried another technique...

... To level out the waves a bit:

This is my attempt at (my understanding of) Britt_Quilts technique:

Somehow, I managed to cut the final curve backwards:

Then, it was time to add the horizon and sky:

I scrounged for some coordinating scraps to create a quilt back...

... And layered this small seascape for quilting:

I used all these threads on this 6" x 7" mini:

I present SS#1, the first piece in what has turned out to be a series:

My only regret is that the pieced backing is abundantly evident because of the low loft batting scrap that I used for layering:

Little did I know when I finished that piece that I wasn't done with miniature landscape quilts!  I was SEW in the zone that I didn't even take a photo of the fabric pull for SS#2:

The quilting also went quickly:

Mmm... Matchstick quilting is SEW perfect for this piece:

At 6" x 8" this is the largest piece in the series:

Again, there were MANY thread changes:

And then, I did it, again...

... Only smaller!!  At 6" wide x 5.5" tall, here is SS#3:

This is getting a LITTLE ridiculous...

I still didn't share the fabric pull prior to getting to work on this one:

SS#4 finally used some smaller scraps and I kept this one a bit on the chunkier side, but it still managed to look like a seascape:

Even in the 5.5" square, I used NINE different thread colors:

Warning...

There may (read as WILL definitely) be more to come.  Oh, and some finishing, but I haven't decided exactly HOW to I want to do that, yet.

Sharing with Kelly

for

Needle and Thread Thursday

and

With Alycia

for

Finished (Or Not) Friday

(On Friday!)

Until next time...

Ride the WAVE!!!