In December we were given four pieces of fabric at Imperial Quilters and the challenge is to make a 'spring' quilt with them and only adding two other fabrics. (See Tuesday 27 December 2011 blog).

I bought a copy of this last winter - recommended by DIL and had a plan to make a wall hanging for the kitchen...

These are some foundation pieced table mats in the book.....

So as you can see the patterns are quite large - the cereal bowl and jar are both 4-1/2 square and the jug is 9 inches.

We need to do a hanging less than 15 inches square for the challenge ..... so I had a plan to do each square 2 inches. (well as near to two inches as is possible with metric squared paper!)  I couldn't reduce the patterns, so I started with squared paper and just drew them......

I did the tea cup first, then the jar and sewed them onto two x 2 inch plain squares.... this whole piece measures 4 inches square.

This morning I finished the milk jug.  It was my second attempt, because the first attempt was drawn wrong.  This is 2 inches x 4 inches.

And this afternoon - I will be doing some more.  I thought I had another week to finish this, but having turned over the page in my diary it will need to be finished and delivered somewhere on Wednesday evening - ready for hanging on Thursday.  So that leaves today!!!