Mindless Monday

Maybe it's too long of a winter, or maybe it's because a dear friend of mine died last week, but I have nothing to show you, I'm afraid.  My friend, although up in years, was one of my best critics and I will miss her terribly.  I took everything I made to show to her because she insisted that I was sewing through her since she couldn't anymore.  It's almost like I lost my mother twice.  She only had sons, so we were close. I'm hoping this passes because I am bored to death and I know she wouldn't want me to stop sewing out of grief.   I am forming a plan, but it's quite mindless. Hopefully, it will put me in the sewing mood again.  So, my friends, if I am gone for a few weeks, please bear with me.  I'll be back......with stuff for some swaps I joined.  

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.