First Week, First Finish!

What is it about the first week of January?
Snow falling, wood stacked up, wood stove panting, pencil scratching out lists and plans...the cutting mat out, ironing board up and sewing machine just a-humming!

We are talking rock star pattern (Modern Circle Pillow, by Alissa Haight-Carlton)!
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...getting all the kinks out....

...full speed ahead....this all took place on the very first day of the year!

But when the arrival of my impetuous purchase of a Denyse Schmidt Modern Solids charm pack turned out to be a mini charm pack....well, it put a screeching halt to the pillow progress, and  let's just say it didn't sit around looking cute for very long! 

you know this is "fake" right? It was much tidier than this when it arrived ;)
Originally containing 75 mini charms...there are 18 missing from this little stack

As I laid out all the charms, enamored by their colors, only one quilt kept coming to mind...

...you know the one....ahhhh....

Cool Waters
by the uber talented Jayne @ Twiggy & Opal

In the back of my mind I would probably have to admit that this quilt was, in fact, the real impetus behind that impromptu purchase! I have pretty seriously crushed on it since I first saw it!

But what was I to do with minis?
Ahh...how about another "Reminder Mini", I wondered to myself? 

Oh yes, about one split second later the decision was made, then a little bit longer to figure the math for downsizing Jayne's charm pack shadow block tutorial.

When I first began picking charms and cutting 1" strips for the shadows and sashing, I was thinking "Cool Puddles"...you know, since it is smaller "waters"....but "puddles" doesn't sound very cool....
And well, Jayne is....so I now present...

"Cool Jayne"

 my 2nd "reminder mini"

It came together so quickly, I can't even include it on my Q1 Finish Along list...because it is already finished! :)

It has 18 mini charms

is backed in this big wonderful "Falling Roses" by Tanya Whelan

bound in gray, and measures 14" x 21"

So, yay for the first week in January!

And for the first Finish It Up Friday of the new year!

truth: this hasn't landed permanently yet, it travels room to room with me...I can hardly bear to have it out of my sight!

I love it that much!

Thanks to Jayne for her super uber awesome "Cool Waters" to remake as a mini.

Cool Waters by Jayne