Baby Quilt (44†x 44â€) I finished the baby quilt. It took a few tries before I found the right layout. I backed it with the DS Quilts Red and Pink Dots fabric which worked well with the other fabrics. I quilted it with my walking foot both in the ditch and on the diagonals. […]
WIP – baby quilt (expected 44†x 44â€) As I was gathering fabrics for my next set of magpie girls I saw several fat quarters with pink. My brother and sister-in-law recently learned they are expecting a girl; my first soon to be niece needs a quilt. She’ll be baby sister to my two nephews
We need a chair for our living room and cannot decide on what to buy. If one of us lays on the couch, the other is on the floor. To make the floor more comfy and colorful, I made 3 floor pillows each 27†x 27â€. The Anna Maria Horner fabrics are perfect here and
Magpie 4 (13†x 23â€) I love all the magpie girls, but the colors in this one are my favorite. I quilted the background with spiral flowers on the bottom and a streaky sky on the top. I put a fabric covered brad in her hair – the colors matched so well with the bits
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Magpie Girl 3 (13†x 23â€) After the bright collection of magpie girl 1, I wanted something more subtle; so I gathered soft, romantic bits and baubles including charms I had from a long ago valentine charm swap. I was thrilled to use tiny bits of marbled paper that I’d been keeping for years. And
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Magpie Girl 2 (13†x 23â€) After the wire dress, I experimented with a a ruffled skirt. This magpie girl ties bits of lace, pretty paper, buttons, watch parts, broken jewelry and other hardware to her skirt. The background is made like the other quilt with scraps of fabric fused to the batting and then
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Magpie Girl 1 (13†x 23â€) This is the first of 4 quilts inspired by the inspirational envelope challenge. The background is made of scraps of yellow fabric, much of it was hand dyed from my wedding fused to the batting and then free motion doodle stitched. The girl collects bit and pieces like a
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Happiness detail It took 7 months, but I finally finished my first hand quilted quilt. I used #8 perle cotton and fabrics from Anna Maria Horner. The hand quilting was inspired by Anna’s post about her stitching. The project made me happy so I named the quilt, happiness. Happiness (4’ x 5’)
Work in progress My quilt group posed an inspirational envelope challenge. Two months ago we put several items in an envelope that were to inspire someone to make a quilt; then we swapped envelopes. Below are the contents of the envelope I received. envelope contents: buttons, beads, earring, bell, sequins, piece of a zipper and
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Lost: Black Moleskine cashiers notebook with Kelly Rae Roberts magnetic book mark on the front cover. Contains correspondence, magazine and newspaper clippings, project ideas and tutorials that I hoped to try. Last seen: In my bag at guild meeting Jul 7th Contact: Desperate Artist Reward for safe return If I could post such an ad,
