I went to an antique mall with my son last week. I saw this little quilt and had to bring it home.
It’s a child sized quilt and tied without any batting. That makes sense for Arizona. The fabrics are charming!
It is all hand pieced. I’m not usually a fan of tied quilts. I’m thinking about taking it apart and hand quilting it.
Have a great day!
I started these on the way to Iceland.
I’m not good at English Paper Piecing.
After Winslow tried to eat my pieces, I put it away. With lots of traveling this month, I decided to pull it out again.
We shall see how far I get this time! Have a great day!
No work on the dollhouse has happened this week, but I have the next one all lined up!
Daughter #3 found this one for free on Facebook Marketplace in her area and picked it up for me. It is very heavy and clearly home made.
My plan is to turn this into a mid century modern ranch.
All I know for sure at this point is that I need to learn to make some tiny breeze block.
Have a great day!
This turned out to be a pretty quick finish since I found so many yo-yos already done.
I forgot to hold the yo-yos right sides together when I whip stitched them together. 🙄
But it turned out good enough for the dollhouse.
Have a great day!
A few more favorites from days gone by, these are all minis and they are all made from vintage fabrics.
I hope you enjoyed looking back at these little bits! Have a great day!
This is the tool I used to make my yo-yos.
It comes apart into two pieces.
Lay the fabric on top of the outer piece.
It is held in p,ace by the disc.
I trim the corners off.
Then stitch through the openings in the back. They look like little smiles.
Once you’ve gone all the way around, remove the discs and pull on the thread.
Ta da!
Have a great day!
I made this little yo-yo quilt quite a few years ago.
I used this little yo-yo maker from Clover.
I thought it would fit one of the beds in my doll house, but it was too big so I decided to make another. I was pretty excited to find that I already had this string of yo-yos ready to go.
I needed ten more so I quickly cut these squares to make a few more.
I used this die from Accuquilt to cut them.
I’ll show how this works in another post. Have a good one!
Here are the goals I set for August:
1. Quilt 5 QOVs. Done!
2. Finish the bow tie quilt. Done!
3. Make a couple more dollhouse quilts. Done!
4. Tackle at least one more UFO. Not done.
5. Get caught up on my string blocks. Not done.
6. Make a QOV. Not done.
What else did I finish?
One doll bed quilt.
Eh, not so great. In my defense, I have had several trips this month and I’m currently out of the state.
Onto September.
1. Quilt fiveQOVs.
2. String blocks.
3. One UFO
4. Two baby quilts.
Wish me luck!
Last weekend I was able to attend another trail training event put on by the Ladies Offroad Network. This is Frankie, we get to practice wrenching on him.
Charlene Bower founded the organization and she is a fantastic teacher.
Jeeperz Creeperz in Detroit hosted us in their shop.
Lots of great rigs and great ladies were there!
It was such a fun day and I learned so much.
Have a good one!
I made another little log cabin quilt to hang on my tiny quilt rack.
Again, I used graph paper to create a paper foundation. The logs of my log cabin are 1/4 inch wide.
It sure looks a mess before it is trimmed!
I didn’t add batting or any quilting.
I pressed a fold where it would hang over the rack and tacked it in place with a few hidden stitches.
I think I need to make another for the other side. It’s so tiny and lightweight that it needs a counterbalance.
Have a great day!
