Made a little quilt
Rose Pekelnicky
last year
My son, who lives out of town, asked me to make a pillow for my granddaughter's doll bed. I made the pillow but also whipped up a little quilt to go with it. Put it in the mail yesterday.
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Comments (5)Jo, I hope you get some rain soon. Prolonged droughts are common where I live and we have them pretty much every year for at least a month or two, and often for much, much longer. It is very frustrating to keep waiting for and hoping for rain that doesn't come. Even in times when no rain has fallen for a month or two or three, our trees have mostly survived. Often, their leaves will yellow and brown and drop, but that is the tree's way of surviving the drought....by going into a false dormancy. Normally, though, when the rains return, the trees leaf out (and sometimes bloom) and are fine. If you have any trees that have been in the ground less than 3 years though, they may not have a large enough root system to get them through the drought without irrigation, so be sure to water them. Drought is perhaps my least favorite part of living in Oklahoma. Dawn...See Morequestion on crazy quilts
Comments (5)Vicky, Here's an site that might help. Would love to see your blocks/quilt. I made a couple of small quilts for my daughter's dolls years ago. It wasn't a professional job, but not bad for a childs doll quilt. I made this little quilt from a picture of one in a magazine that caught my youngest daughter's eye. I made small blocks, by foundation piecing (I didn't know that was what it was called at the time) I then sewed the small squares together and then embellished them. I layered with a cute fabric and machine tied them to the backing. I didn't add batting to their little quilts. I machined tacked them at intersecting seams that didn't interfere with the stitches I had already done. It worked for a doll 'blanket' that was well used, I don't know about a larger one for a real person. The best of luck! doris Here is a link that might be useful: Crazy Quilt tips and techniques...See MoreSo Many Quilts, So Little Time!
Comments (17)My very first quilts were actually made when I was quite young. We were quite poor as my husband was finishing up his degree and I had to quit my job when I got pregnant. (Yes, gals, those of us over fifty remember those days when there wasn't any such thing as job security for pregnancies). I made a lot of my baby's layette and made what would be called a postage stamp quilt for him. I was so totally clueless then, and there wasn't an internet to look up how to do it, so I winged it. Each square was about and inch square, lol. I didn't figure out one could do strips and then cut them and make it easier. So..........you can picture the rest. Then when that was finished, I started an embroidered animal quilt. Back then there were blocks all dime stores carried, with the pattern on them and you did the embroidery and pieced it. I can tell you this much, I got started on it before my son was born, and finished it in time to give it to my first grandson. rofl!!!! Did I set the record or what? I put quilting away after that until I got over the trauma of it. I'll look around for some pics. Likely they'll be of the big quilts in progress....See MoreBaby quilt on the way to Brazil!
Comments (14)I love it, Linda. The fabric is just right and your doodles are fun. I love how our DHs help us. My DH had his toes in the last picture he took for me....See More
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