Doll quilts in review

 

This quilt was my first submission for the doll quilt swap  I used inspiration from an old children's book my father had.  My Grandmother used to read to me from it.  The poem goes;

A little yellow monkey
In a banyan tree
One morning got the giggles,
Going tee-hee-hee

And then he went to snoozing
In the banyan tree

And dreamed that the fishes
In the bright blue sea were
Dancing on the breakers
Going  tee-hee- hee.

It resides with Dena.

This quilt I mad for a placemat swap but it was really more of a doll quilt. I really liked the back as you could see the tree through the material.   My partner liked this one block and I thought that I would incorporate it in the front of the quilt.  

 

This quilt I made in the last doll quilt swap.  

  I made this quilt a year ago and it is made from all silk.  I  loved it's texture and quilting..More later

QAL

This is what I have been working on in the Doll quilt swap over at Flickr. We make a quilt to exchange with another person. My person usually likes very frivolous things with applique but she said she wanted something different. I free pieced the circles and then continued the curved piecing to the outside to give the illusion of movement. I hope she likes it. My original plan called for this gray linen which I may still do.. but she seems to like color so I will see if this catches her eye...
Ok. I am going to try to start this blog thing again.. as I am shit at it.. excuse the french... I have been following along Lynne over at Flickr and she is having a Quilt A- Long... they are encouraging us to use our blogs and well I have been slack at it. Sometimes I am just too tired to write and near the end I was just sending over things from flickr with out even saying anything. Now I think I will try to start again.. even with baby steps of just a few words at time. Any way you all should go over to flickr and see Lilly quilts.. QAL...

Progress of meals on Wheels quilt

Progress of meals on Wheels quilt
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Ticker tape quilt done

Ticker tape quilt done
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I made this quilt with my son's 5th grade class. I went in and had them design the blocks with pieces of fabric that I had put fusible webbing on. We ironed on the designs and I took it home and sewed it together. This will be presented to the teacher as a gift for their last year in elementary school. It is 56/56. Thanks to ScrapHappy-Quilter for the suggestion on the border and banquopack for the quilt inspiration. I love the idea of a space to designate a border of the s

Pillow for PTS

Pillow for PTS
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Here is my pillow for the Pillow Talk swap. It is a tree/bird in a pieced in circle surrounded by wonky stars. It is linen and scraps of other projects for the stars. I was going to do half squares, but when I made the stars I liked them so much I thought they would be better in the border. It is 20/20.

Back fo ticker tape quilt 2

Back fo ticker tape quilt 2
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I went to my daughter's class and each of the students designed a square. I took the squares home and sewed them together. This time I wanted to sew them on point to make it a bit different. She liked orange/turquoise so I had the orange around the border to keep the turquoise in the middle.

This is the back of the quilt. I tied in the orange/turquoise here.
These will be end of the year gifts for the teachers, from the students.

What you get when you are good at something

What you get when you are good at something
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Ok... I made another quilt for my son's teacher. Some of the parents got wind of it and asked me to make one for this other teacher. I wanted to do it a bit different and did it on point. This is for my daughter's teacher...

Urban goods swap

Urban goods swap
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My runner, hotpads, and my barefoot assistant

Another view of the back of the runner

Another view of the back of the runner
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back of the runner

Runner with linen and Anna Maria Horner

Runner with linen and Anna Maria Horner
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A runner I made for the Urban goods swap on Flickr

Circle quilt finished~~

Circle quilt finished~~
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I did this quilt for the Doll quilt swap.

DQS8 Favorites

DQS8 Favorites
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I am going to be participating in the Doll quilt swap #8. This should be fun. These are all thing that I think are lovely. But partner, if you are reading this look at these as things that make me sing, but you make something that does that for you and I will love it!! Bright modern and different are all things that are ooo sooo cool. I am trying to decide what I will do for my partner. She does not comment much and hopefully I will see her style and mix it with something I have wanted to try.

Blocks for Sewlatea III

Blocks for Sewlatea III
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Here are some more dresdens. These are my attempts at flowers. Hope you like them. They also have the decorative stitch around the middle of the flower.

Blocks for Sewlatea II

Blocks for Sewlatea II
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Here is my attempt at hexs. Never have I made them before . I really like the end result.

Blocks for Sewlatea I

Blocks for Sewlatea I
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I did a dresden and a decorative stitch around the inside circle. I put a bit in the inside rose to make it stick out a bit.

pillow talk front

pillow talk front
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Here is the front of my pillow. I really love it. It is bright and cheery and I did put the beads on it and I really like them. I made it 20/20 for the insert and put a zipper in the bottom back.

Pillow talk /finished

Pillow talk /finished
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Blocks for Sewlatea

Blocks for Sewlatea
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October Blocks for Bee Modern

These blocks are for Tweedledee designs on Flikr. I really like the fabrics she chose for these blocks. She is having a baby and wants to make a quilt and bumper out of the blocks. She wanted a tree and a log cabin block.

Here is another picture of the group. I really like making trees. They were fun but my comfort zone is in the applique trees. I really liked making the pieced ones though. This is why I am going these swaps .. to stretch myself and learn new things and develop a new comfort zone ; )

Odds and Ends

I was asked to make an angel placemat for some one who did not get one. I made this one for Kylie in Australia.

Here is the back of the placemat; Kaffee Fassett

Here is the

back of the placemat. Who doesn't like Pokemon?

I decided to make a placemat for both of her children. This is for her son.

This one is for her daughter.

the back... She said that her daughter carried it around all day. How sweet?

Blocks for Bee Modern...Birds with ric rac...in a flower garden

birds in a cage

birds on branches