'Quilts' Category
Ladies Art Quilt Company Pattern #41 – Cog Wheels
This quilt pattern is the first of four requested by Ann Champion. Since I still can’t sit for very long, I drafted this on a board while lying on the couch. I’ll tell you what — it’s sort of tricky to use a compass when you’re lying down. I left some of the extra [...]
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 [...]Mariner’s Compass Doll Quilt Top
This is a pattern from Mini Quilts From Traditional Designs, by Corcoran and Wilkinson. The book is out of print, but used copies are available on Amazon. I made this years ago when I first began using vintage fabric. The brown and tan background fabrics are reproduction, and the compass circles are [...]
Cross Variation Doll Quilt Top
The top is finished, but it doesn’t have quite as many blocks as I had planned. There wasn’t enough of the sashing print, so the quilt ended up a square instead of a rectangle. It’s going to be interesting hand quilting this one because it has a lot more seams than any of [...]
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 [...]
Embroidered Basket Quilt
The basket quilt is finally done, and I’m very happy with it. You might remember that this quilt started out with a print border, but I just wasn’t happy with it. After I decided to do the blue floss quilting on the white border, it seemed like a good idea to add some [...]
Vintage California Tablecloth Quilt
Gordon and I decided to forego the usual Christmas gifts since we just finished a remodel of our kitchen. Of course, I have to give him some little presents, so I decided to make him his own little quilt to use on the couch.
Because we lived in California for 11 years and our kids were [...]Rail Fence Baby Quilt
This little quilt was made with scraps from vintage floral sheets and pillowcases which I purchased on Etsy. The fabric is mostly 50/50 polyester and cotton blend — it’s very soft, but not as nice to sew with as 100% cotton fabric. Because the patterns are so similar and there was no way to create [...]
Embroidered Baskets Quilt Top
This is the funny little quilt I was struggling with a few days ago when I asked for help, then removed the post because I had an idea. I was going to give this to one of the pregnant teachers at school, but because it’s almost all vintage fabric (except the narrow blue border), I [...]
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