Archive for May, 2009

• ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Bear

  I intended to post this bear last night, but just as I was finishing up the last of the fur, I caught my cat, Jack, urinating on a pile of clothes in the laundry room. Because this is a bad habit he has acquired lately, I grabbed him to toss him outside and he [...]

  May 29th, 2009

• ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Lion

  I love this lion pattern and the variegated thread looks so great on his mane. See…..I’m not always all negative about stuff I make. This ABC project is so much fun to stitch. If you are interested in making any of these blocks, I have placed a link to the pdf (52 [...]

  May 26th, 2009

• Plaid Pieced Table Topper

  Because the lion ABC block isn’t done yet (the mane is taking forever), here is another table square I just completed. This one is made from contemporary fabrics — a sample book of Ralph Lauren decorator plaids and stripes. I love buying sample books because the fabrics generally look good together. After [...]

  May 24th, 2009

• ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Doll

  I love this doll, but I must say I could use some more practice on my back stitch — it’s hard to make all of the stitches the same size. I wonder if it would be easier if I were using more than one strand of floss. I am going to make all [...]

  May 22nd, 2009

• ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Puppet

  This puppet design is so cute, but my thread choice ended up being a little pale. I used an Anchor multi-colored floss (rainbow) that I thought would be perfect. I do like the effect, though, and plan to use multi-colored floss on the clown and the jack-in-the-box as well. The doll is [...]

  May 20th, 2009

• ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Owl

  This owl took almost the whole skein of floss — and most of it was done with just one strand. It’s hard to see in this photo, but I used another variegated floss — sort of a brown/rust/red combination. It’s subtle, but I like it. I promised myself I would only do [...]

  May 18th, 2009

• ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Alligator

  I’m pretty excited about this ABC quilt made from the coloring book I posted earlier. I should be working on the wool quilt, but I just had to see how these were going to look. Instead of the two smaller drawings, I decided to make letters instead and fill them with a pattern [...]

  May 16th, 2009

• Feedsack Pinwheel Quilt

  This is an Alice Brooks mail order pattern from the 1940’s, and this poor quilt has so many problems, I hardly know where to begin. First of all, I had a terrible time with the piecing — I couldn’t manage to match up all eight seams in the block corners. Out of desperation, [...]

  May 14th, 2009

• Vintage ABC Coloring Book

  For some time now I have wanted to make an alphabet quilt. Although I own several vintage commercial ABC applique and embroidery patterns, they just haven’t inspired me. So, I bought a few vintage ABC coloring books on ebay — some of the drawings are very cute, but this one I love. [...]

  May 12th, 2009

• Happy Mother’s Day!

  Mother Goose
  Merrill Publishing, undated
  Vivian Robbins, Illustrator

  May 10th, 2009