Archive for December, 2008

• Embroidered Pillowcases

  These pillowcases were made as a Christmas gift. I adapted the designs from the J. F. Ingalls embroidery catalog published in 1886.  Scans of the catalog are available on the Exceedingly Curious blog of John Governale. Because the designs are very detailed, I used only one strand of floss. The vintage crocheted pillowcases were [...]

  December 31st, 2008

• Mother Goose Quilt Blocks 3 & 4

  The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe and Hey Didddle Diddle — two more blocks for this quilt, copied from “The Very Young Mother Goose.” These are a lot of fun and go quickly using Crayola crayons and 2 strands of black DMC. On ebay I found a big piece of vintage [...]

  December 30th, 2008

• Lantern Quilt

  I have chosen this quilt (posted In January, 2009) as my entry in the Park City Girl’s Fall Quilt Festival.
  This pattern is from a 1976 quilt booklet, “Stitch ‘n Patch Quilts.” I love these old pattern books — instructions are minimal and usually take up one page or less. I always [...]

  December 28th, 2008

• Vintage Juvenile Hankies

  I have been collecting these little hankies for a couple of years with the thought that I would make a crib quilt. Originally, I wanted them all to have an ABC or alphabet theme, but these proved difficult to find. I have broadened my search to include basically any other designs that I [...]

  December 26th, 2008

• Santa’s Follow the Colors

  I had never seen a “follow the color” type coloring book before, but I thought the designs were very cute, especially for embroidery. I love any coloring books by the Krehbiels. Here are just a few of the cute drawings.
  Santa’s Follow the Colors
  Drawings by Becky & Evans Krehbiel
  Copyright 1964
  Whitman Publishing Company

  December 22nd, 2008

• Old Clothespin Ornaments

  Here are some of the clothespin ornaments I made in 1975, and they have certainly seen better days. Frank (the farmer) and Alice (the school girl) were two of my cats at the time and I see they have lost all of their whiskers — the poor White Rabbit just has one whisker left. [...]

  December 21st, 2008

• Mother Goose Quilt Block 2

  Tom Tom the Piper’s Son is my second quilt block in this series from The Very Young Mother Goose.  Jack and Jill are on block #1.  Now I feel pretty good about these blocks and they are going well, except I just noticed my wheel is more oval than round.  I was thinking that some [...]

  December 19th, 2008

• Embroidered Christmas Ornaments

  We just got the tree up over the weekend and I was reminded of all the old Christmas ornaments I made when I was young.  When Gordon and I were first married, we used to buy these cheap, flimsy natural Douglas Fir trees from Chubby and Tubby that were sort of sweet.  We didn’t have [...]

  December 17th, 2008

• Scottie Quilt Blocks

  Several years ago I saw a darling scottie quilt for sale on ebay.  It was a bit worn and stained, but I loved the pattern.  I saved the photos from the listing and was determined to make one of my own.  After drawing the pattern, I began to collect vintage fabric to make the scotties.  [...]

  December 15th, 2008

• Dresden Plate Doll Quilt

  This quilt was made with tiny scraps of vintage 1930’s fabric left over from larger quilt projects.  I never throw away any little scraps because they can be used for doll quilts (and vintage fabric is precious).  This little quilt was pieced and quilted entirely by hand — even the binding.  The back is a [...]

  December 13th, 2008