Doll Quilt Swap # 11

I am so excited that I got into the Doll Quilt Swap again....Round 11...yay!! I started stalking my partner right away and had trouble with an idea until I came across a piece of information in my stalking and BINGO.....there was my plan! It's a very interesting process to "stalk" your partner by looking at her Flickr and her blog and comments she makes in the group about other quilts and try to figure out what she might really like.

I will share more about the process later, I'm afraid if I do now she might happen across the blog and find out that this one is for her!

Anyway, I have been drooling over a lot of the Japanese inspired quilts that are all shades of taupe so my mini quilt will have blocks that are taupe. Here are a few of them:

Taupe is a very interesting color.....very elusive too! It can encompass beige, grey, tan....when you ask people about taupe....they often look puzzled!

I am having a lot of fun with this mini and it has really made me see that I want to make a large taupe quilt for myself one day.

I have also been playing with paper piecing and really loving that process. I'll write mroe about that later. These blocks are paper pieced. I'll be sure to share this little mini when it is finished and let you know if my partner liked it! :-)