The Schnitzel and Boo mini has arrived in Sweden
IT HAS ARRIVED, it has arrived!!! After over two weeks in transit, the package has finally arrived in northern Sweden. The recipient is called Elizabeth, or lizziebird as she is known on Flickr. When I got the email revealing my Swap Partner, one of the things which immediately caught my eye, was that she "had a thing for hedgehogs and Totoro". I didn't have a clue who Totoro was, but with the help of Google I soon found out. He's an incredibly sweet animated Japanese character. My first plan was to make a Totoro mini quilt, but checking her Flickr feed, I realised someone else had beaten me to it. Instead I settled for a car / window sticker. For the hedgehog I came across a fantastic paper piecing template on Artisania's homepage . I had never done any paper piecing before, but with an engineer's logic I set off and made a trial version. After realising I needed to trim and press (a lot) more often, I dug out the nice fabrics. Some