'Work in Progress' Category

• Cog Wheels Block — Hand Piecing

  Some quilters like to make their templates the finished size so they can mark the sewing line on their quilt pieces. I don’t do this — after adding a scant 1/4″ around each template, I draw the cutting line on the fabric and then just eyeball the seam allowance when stitching the pieces together.  [...]

  March 7th, 2010

• Sawtooth Doll Quilt Top

  Yesterday I made this doll quilt for my friend, Barbara, at Oodles and Oodles. Last month she sent me a box of cute vintage scraps which I assigned to several different quilt projects. A little doll quilt seemed like a nice way to thank her, and I was just thinking about the colors [...]

  February 14th, 2010

• Santa’s Follow-the-Colors Embroidered Quilt – Row 2

  The second row has been finished for several days, and I’m just getting around to taking photos.  I was able to cut a lot more squares for the sashing with some pretty vintage scraps sent to me by Barbara at Oodles and Oodles. Thank you, Barbara!
  A few of the original designs are going to [...]

  February 8th, 2010

• Doll Quilt Blocks with Antique Fabric #4

  Two more rows completed on this little top — and two more to go.  I’m not sure about some of my color choices and it’s very busy, but since this is only the second quilt I’ve made with this color pallete, I’m pretty happy with it. When making a doll quilt, I like the blocks [...]

  February 2nd, 2010

• Friendship Knot Quilt Block – WIP

  This is probably getting monotonous, but I still am not ready to show photos of the Album quilt top, although I am getting close. I’m also continuing to work in the evenings on the Christmas quilt and the second row is nearly complete — pictures coming soon.
  This is a quilt design copied from a [...]

  January 25th, 2010

• Doll Quilt Blocks with Antique Fabric #3

  The second row is finished on the little quilt. I removed one block from the first row and added it to the second because the quilt seemed too wide to me — now it will be around 19″ x 23″ or so.

  The sashing fabric for the Album quilt arrived a few days ago and [...]

  January 18th, 2010

• Doll Quilt Blocks with Antique Fabric #2

  This morning I finished the first row of the doll quilt. It would have been nice to have a little stripe for the sashing (I like the print in the original quilt), but I didn’t have a piece large enough. I also wish I had enough fabric to make the sashing 1/4″ wider, [...]

  January 16th, 2010

• Doll Quilt Blocks with Antique Fabric

  The quilt that I am copying is from the book, Classic Crib Quilts. Because my scraps from the Album quilt are so small with just a few of each print, I knew I would need a scrappy quilt pattern with fairly small pieces. When I saw this little quilt, I knew right away [...]

  January 15th, 2010

• Antique Album Quilt Blocks – Revised #3

  Today was my day off and I was able to make several more of these blocks. My routine is to take several blocks apart in the evening while I’m watching television, then let the pieces soak overnight in a mild soapy solution. The next morning I rinse several times and roll them in [...]

  January 13th, 2010

• Antique Album Quilt Blocks – Revised #2

  The best part about working on these revised blocks is figuring out which little scraps to use for each piece. This is a photo of the 3 striped blocks disassembled (2 whole and 1 half) and I just realized that I missed unpicking a couple of seams).

  The half block had to be sacrificed to [...]

  January 10th, 2010