EB Dolls Quilt Sent!

Well as Mands has recieved her quilt I made for her, I can post a photo. Her preferences were familiar, something bright and modern to hang above her sewing area. It was a journey as I did start out with a colour pallette which ended in this quilt. But then when I finished I thought too bright so I picked out these colours. Being the Mum of two girls as well, one can never have enough pink and purple in the house!

This one was also in the running but as I was quilting it two of the light brown seams popped out. The result of making my fabric peices too small and edges being too close to the foundation paper lines! Arg! I fixed it but it wasn't swap worthy so Milly will get this one on her wall in her little collection.

It was a great swap. Shall we do it again next year?

EB Dolls Quilt Swap Recieved!

Today is the day! The grand opening of the second annual EB Quilters Dolls Quilt Swap! I recieved this cute little quilt from Ingrid K. Its a chalk board quilt! Sew many projects, sew little time, never a wiser word spoken! And its sew true Ingrid!


The blanket stitching is lovely and I love the spotty binding! Its such a unique idea, chalk board material, its kinda hard to write on and washes the chalk off perfectly, its amazing, I didn't even know such stuff exisited. Thank you Ingrid, its just lovely!

Usually I don't let the girls near my fabric with a texta or pen but in this case, I gave Milly a pencil of tailors chalk and away she could go! We'll make a quilter out of her yet. Thanks again Ingrid.

WIP Wednesday - Week 36 - EB Dolls Quilt getting there...

Getting tired of swirly, twisting blocks? Here's yet another? I have 4 of these ready to sew together, just working out which direction. The browns look nicer in real life than this hurried snap.

Away for awhile.....

School holidays here so we are going to Rotto for a week. This is what I'm leaving on my cutting mat, taking no sewing, I need to get a hand sewing long term project going, I'm going to feel lost. I'm going to take a little book and my colour pencils and do some designing. See you soon!

WIP Wednesday - Week 35 - Spiral Doll Quilts Progress

Despite having a sick household over the weekend, Daz has got a man-cold, insert rolling the eyes at the man on his "death bed" over a little head cold, you know what its like! Milly had a horrid 4 day long stomach virus, 2 days of vomiting and then 2 days of lying on the couch sleeping and watching DVD's, poor poppet. But the plus side was that I managed to get quite a bit of sewing done as my machine is on table which butts up to the couch Milly was on, so I could supervise her and sew! Perfect! So I finished this dolls quilt, the pink and purple one. Well I finished the top and the quilting, its ready to bind. It is wonky in the top left corner cause I took this photo of it while it was hanging on the felt wall. Pondering over binding colour, maybe a orange to bring out the flower in the centre square?

And I finished this one too. I only put a sneek peak shot up last week as I thought it was going to be for the EB Quilters Doll Swap, but now I have it finished I am thinking, nope I'll do something else. I mean I really like this, love the colours and the movement but am thinking is it enough for the swap? Its a simple design and it didn't take that long to sew, will my swap partner be happy with that? Then I got to fiddling around with the image in Photoshop.... cut off two of the triangle borders and rotated the squares to come up with the below pattern.

So I am now going to whip up this one and see which one looks better for the swap. One for my swapee's wall, one for mine. :)

EB Dolls Quilt Swap.... the beginning.

I have started my dolls quilt for the second EB Quilters Dolls Quilt Swap. I've come up with the idea of a swirly spiral rainbow, two sections going from yellow, orange, red and the other two from green, blue, purple with a little 1/4th inch of white sashing inbetween. Can you picture it? It's in my head, I'm just eager to go so I haven't got my coloured pencils out and coloured in a design. It's there, it will work. It's foundation peiced again, I just love the sharp points of accuracy!