Sarah Made me a Quilt!

I got a fun package from my friend Sarah (via my mom) and in it was the Doll Quilt she had made me. I was her partner for the latest Doll Quilt Swap.

She made a beautiful liberated churn dash in bright oranges and green. She also sent me a copy of the book "Collaborative Quilting" by Gwen Marston & Freddy Moran. They use this "liberated" style of quilting in all their designs. It just means they take a regular ole' pattern and make it a bit wonky. Look how Sarah made the corners of the orange bits all different sizes and angles? Isn't it great??! She's so talented!

She also sent me some goodies - some rubber stamping supplies, a vintage poppy postcard, and of course, some tissue and ribbon in orange and green. The tissue and ribbon were just the wrapping supplies, but as Sarah knows, I'll keep that and reuse it later - probably for her! Hee! Thanks for a great little quilty Sarah!

DQS4 is DONE!

I finally finished my Doll Quilt!

I had lots of trouble with my machine and this quilt. I've realized that I can't lower the feed dogs on my sewing machine, which in laymans terms means the machine will only allow the fabric to move in one direction. So doing fun twisty sewing patterns is VERY difficult. I had to stop and turn the fabric every few stitches. Grrrr.....

But it is done and sent off to another country... I'm not allowed to tell where it's going or to whom until it arrives, but lets just say it's heading towards where my sister lives.... hint hint!

More projects that were on the back burners are now getting worked on... we'll see what I can finish before school starts back up next month!

Doll Quilt Swap 4 Progress

I haven't yet posted on the progress of my DQS4 quilt, so here it is. It's been an experiment. I haven't had much experience with appliqué, so I tried it out on this mini quilt. I also have had trouble in the past with binding a quilt, so as you can see, I have been avoiding that part.

I did the detail quilting so far on my machine, which was a painful learning curve. Some of the flower stitching is all wonky. I was also using some shiny embroidery-type thread that didn't always like to work in my machine.

I felt that this whole process was a good thing, however, 'cause it has given me more experience and confidence in both a) making an arty quilt, and b) finishing a quilt!