For a change....Animal Life!

This is a mini quilt (12" square) for a quilters guild challenge, which had an animal theme.

As you can see, I chose my favourite African animals.

I started with the centre roundel, but decided that it needed a vulture, and then added a tortoise to balance the bottom binding.

It's been a fun make!

I'm not much of a hand quilter, but for this quilt, where I'd carefully appliqued the sihouettes, I thought that it deserved the texture (and also, at 12" square, it wasn't too large to handle easily!).

I went for randomly placed circles (the giraffe head was the first one, which was a deliberate placement), in a thread colour slightly darker than the fabric..

The colours are more true in the photo above than in this detail photo.