'Quilts' Category
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Doll Quilt – Tied
Several readers suggested that I tie the little Flower Garden quilt, and that idea really appealed to me. I’ve never made a tied doll quilt before, and I thought it would be fun to try.
The top, backing and binding are vintage fabrics — the batting is an old flannel sheet. Although [...]Strawberry Fields Doll Quilt
The Strawberry Fields Doll Quilt is finally done. I decided to use feather designs — a continuous feather in the pink zig-zag, and some made-up feather designs in the blocks, side setting triangles and corners. I just drew all the designs as I went without a template, so they are a little primitive.
In [...]Sunshine and Shadow Doll Quilt
This is the only Amish style quilt I have ever made — a Christmas present for my mother-in-law, Gail, in 2002. It is a departure from the 1930s style quilts I was making at the time, but I was interested in trying the contrasting stitching on the quilting. I do think it turned [...]
Blogger’s Quilt Festival
This is my entry for Amy’s wonderful Blogger’s Quilt Festival. It’s the first quilt I posted about when I started my blog. Nobody actually read my blog back then, so I thought I would bring this little quilt back into the spotlight because I loved making it.
A Quilt for Julie Martha Dellasega Gray, [...]Mourning Jack Quilt
Yesterday we had to euthanize our 14 year old cat, Jack, who was diagnosed last year with liver disease. I just finished this little mourning quilt, which is named for him.
The blocks were made with mourning prints and shirtings from this quilt top. The border is new, and the binding is constructed from [...]Appliqued Butterfly Quilt
These butterfly wings and bodies were purchased on ebay in 2002, along with the Crazy Baseball blocks used to make this quilt. I assume they were made by the same quilter, since several of the fabrics are the same. The newspapers on the back of the Baseball blocks were dated 1943, so [...]
Baby Doll Quilt
The quilt for Baby Doll is finally finished. BD is the youngest daughter of my blog friend, Ann at Nifty Needle, and she needed a “blanket” for her doll. I think she is going to like this sunny yellow quilt made with 30s scraps. The prints in the top and the yellow [...]
Cross Variation Doll Quilt
This quilt top was really a drag to quilt. On a doll quilt, I try to get my quilting stitches as small as possible so they fit the scale of the piece, but it’s hard on a top with this many tiny seams. The same thing happened when I originally quilted the Mariner’s Compass [...]
Sawtooth Doll Quilt
Barbara’s doll quilt is finished. One quick dip in a tea bath was just enough to tone down the bright white to match the border that I selected after I’d made all the blocks. My quilts are always done this way — never completely planned at the beginning.
The quilting is diagonal [...]Antique Album Quilt Top — Remade
The top is finally done, and I am so happy with it. The reproduction striped sashing reminds me of the original sashing (which was rotten), and the antique fabrics from my stash fit in well with the original prints. Here, once again, is the original top.
And here is the revised top, which is [...]
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