Havin a Party

Well, it's all delivered so now I can show you the finished quilt plus a few more sneak peeks.   I had a ball making this:

And the original drawing with the end result:

Now, I'm out of stuff to show you so I better get to work. Later...............

Sneak Peeks 1 & 2

During DQS7 (my first doll swap), I made a special quilt for "Chickenfoot", the head Mama of the group.  I'm sure you've seen it.  (If not, it's in my photostream in the mini section.)  Well, anyway, I thought it would be fun to continue the process like in some sort of sequel.  At first I was going to have her playing in the snow with the 8 swap mamas, but in the process of the swap, I got a better idea which you'll see next week some time.  I'm not spoiling the surprise just in case she reads my blog!!  I did mail the quilt today so I'm sure she'll get it soon.

In the meantime, I'm going to reveal one sneak peek a day.  So here are the first two:

This was so fun to make, but really involved. Believe it or not, I had to free motion my pieces on because I couldn't manage the applique foot with the tiny pieces. I hope I remember this for DQS9.

  

Angel Quilt

For some reason my finished quilt never made it to my last post.  Go here to see her:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35289170@N06/

Sorry about that!!!  

Angel Quilt

As many of you know, I have deemed myself the official "angel quilt maker" for the latest doll swap.  I actually got permission for this job, because I really have a passion for the smaller quilts and besides, like my husband says, "What else do I have to do all day anyway?"  Well, in the process of thinking about what to make for some of these, I thought...why not an angel quilt for an angel quilt????  (How's that for a sentence??)  So I got to work!!

First the drawing:

Then I got out my trusty "steam a seam" (and I really wish I had stock in that company, I use so much of the stuff) and started working:  Note the perfect background fabric with the tiny dots... what a perfect find that was.

 Then, before I started putting the whole thing together, I sewed her face.  After all, what's an angel without a sweet face?  I also hand stitched her halo because I didn't think I could do a good job with the sewing machine being that it was so skinny.

Pastel Pinwheels

Lately, I've been seeing so many cute quilts using pinwheels, that I just had to get my feet wet too.  AND.....no time like the present with the little quilts I've been making for the doll swap (not that I need anymore, mind you.......but, I did volunteer to be the "official Angel provider" for this go-round, so one or two more won't hurt, just in case.)  I was told that usually 7-8 are needed.  (A good excuse to play some more if nothing else!!  LOL)  Believe it or not, I had never made pinwheels before so all the tutorials I found were good.....but because of the size I needed, had to be altered.  Of course, this was no problem after "285" with the 3/4 inch squares.....but I didn't go that nuts!   

All those little triangles reminded me of Easter eggs for some reason (probably because I have no patience and don't leave the dumb eggs in the little cups long enough to get the really dark colors.  LOL)  Oh well...that's another post.  

I used up all my linen with this project.  I've decided, at least for now, that Kona cotton and Kona bleached muslin are more my style.....and cheaper too!   Maybe in the future though, I'll try some blended linen/cotton.  That might be a bit easier to handle.  Linen tends to be slippery and doesn't want to stay where you put it.  At least mine was like that.

Now....does that look like me? Hardly! WAY too traditional and with pastel colors to boot? EIKES! Truth be told is that my knee is still on the blink and my solids were here and everything else is in the basement. What could I do? I think it's time to see the doctor, huh?