Dolls, Punks, Bowls and a draw!

I've been wracking my brain trying to remember where I put a book and today it came to me! This is it, Country Living's Country Quilts. It is lovely picture book and it was a birthday gift from my Mom and Dad.

Many of the quilts in the book caught my eye and one of them was my doll quilt that I showed you in my August 31st post. I had promised to show you the original doll quilt that was in the book. First here is my version of the quilt.

Ragamuffins 14 1/2" x 18 1/2"

 

And here is the quilt in the book. I fell in love with it and had to make my own miniature version. The blocks in my quilt are 3" square.

Comparing the original to my quilt I estimate that the original blocks are 6" square.

Close-up of original quilt in the book

Since they are set on point they would measure roughly 9 3/4" on the diagonal. The quilt is almost the width of a single bed so that would make the measurement about right. I figure the little quilt must measure about 33" by 43". The only information in the book is that this is a doll quilt and that it was made from a kit.

The work on Lazy Punk is progressing nicely. I should have all of the background quilted tomorrow.

I'm really liking the dimensionality of the "propellers" and am pretty sure that I will not quilt them. And here it is from the back.

Although I washed a sample of the backing fabric to make sure it wouldn't shrink I didn't dry the test swatch in the dryer. I would hate to do all this work and then find out that shrinkage occurred in the dryer. So this morning I quilted a test swatch, washed it in hot water and threw it in the dryer. It came out just fine! So I trimmed the swatch into a circle and gathered up the edges. I'll bind it with some leftover binding and I'll have a little fabric bowl!

Now, who wants to win some lovely fabric? Check out Lia's blog and leave a comment to be entered into a draw for a $25 gift certificate for fabric from Tactile Fabrics.  It is Lia's birthday so to enter just leave her a comment with your birthday wish. And there are lots of other ways to enter which means more chances to win!

Until I post again, happy sewing!

Dolls, dolls and more dolls!

One of the blogs I follow belongs to Lurline. She has pretty little thinks posted and today she wrote about a dolly quilt she is going to make. The dolls are based on a Brandon Mably's quilt "Paper Dolls". Pop on over to Lurline's blog for a look at this adorable quilt and the block that she has made!

Over the years I've made two small doll quilts so I thought I would share them with you today. I drafted my own patterns for both. The first is called "Ragamuffins". My father had given me a book on decorating with quilts and in one of the pictures there was a lovely quilt on a bed but what caught my eye was a tiny navy and red doll quilt on the wall. I can't put my hands on my book just at this moment but when I find it I'll post a picture of the quilt that inspired this one.

Ragamuffins, 2005

The blocks are 3". I had a lot of fun pulling little scraps of old fashioned looking fabric. It is hand appliqued and hand quilted but the piecing was done by machine.

The second quilt was inspired by the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz. I wanted a quilt made of tin women and so I made one!  I call it "Tin Ladies".

Tin Ladies, 2005

The blocks were machine pieced. I cut each patch and pieced it - these were not paper pieced! The quilting was done by hand. The cornerstones are little pink flowers that were fussy cut. The blocks measure 3 1/4" x 4 3/4". It was another fun little quilt to make and I loved sorting through some of my old Civil War prints for the girls.

I had fun with the hand quilting the girls - notice the "chesticles"!

 

And here you can see the little pink flowers in the cornerstones!

Looks like Annie is bored to tears! She should take up quilting!

Until I post again, happy sewing!