Humble Quilt Annual Doll Quilt Swap

Well here we go again, apologising for the tardy blog writing. Never mind here I am.
I have been sewing the latest in the Annual Doll Quilt Swap run by Lori of Humble Quilts. I think this is my 4th year of swapping, and its really exciting waiting in anticipation for that parcel to arrive in the post.
This year for the second time ( accidently) I swapped with Sharon Tucker from Blaine WA.

It appears as though Sharon forgot to take a photo of this before she posted it to me, so I hope this will do for her album. :-)

The quilt she sent me is lovely, and I could be tempted to make one using the same block pattern. Sharon also sent me some  lovely cards and an American Patchwork & Quilting magazine.
Leafing through the magazine, I found a really nice quilt that tickled my fancy with the thought I might make one. I was blown away when I realised the pattern was an original by Sharon herself!


This was the quilt I made and sent to Grace in USA. As it was nice and small I hand quilted it.

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Doll Quilt Swap

Each year for the last 3 years I have been a participant in a Doll Quilt Swap organised by Lori of Humble Quilts.

I have just received the most delightful quilt made by Debra Stebbins from Loveland Colorado. 
I love this quilt and amazingly Debra chose the pattern she would use before she knew who she was making it for. 
The pattern she used is called Susan's Coverage from the book Civil War Legacies 111. 

Its beautifully pieced and quilted, and although I have emailed Debra, I want to say thank you again!

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Doll Quilt Swap

In the last couple of months I participated in the 3rd annual  Doll Quilt Swap organised by Lori of Humble Quilts.
The fabrics to be used were to be  1775 - 1910 style.
No larger than 24"square, but can be smaller.

There were 90 participants, and Lori put all the names together, then told each of us, our swap partner.
I really enjoy doing this swap, and most times don't want to post it on. :-)

This is a photo of the quilt I made and sent away to my partner

I machine quilted ( only cause I ran out of time to hand quilt it) using my most favourite pattern - Baptist Fan. Slightly different in size to my normal large quilts. 

 This is the quilt I received from Judith in California.
This is a beautifully made quilt, and I also received a delightful Cathedral window pincushion.
 

If you go on over to Lori she having a linky up party. you'll be able to see the rest of the quilts

  Now, back to my hand applique.  :-)

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Doll Quilt Swap Revealed

I received my fabulous Doll Quilt from Sharon Tucker. Thank you so much Sharon. I love it, together with the YLI thread, pkt needles and a swatch of repro fabric with grasshoppers playing pool.
Its beautifully quilted – some hand and some machine.

I am also working on finishing a few UFO’s. This is a quilt I started about 6 years ago. The block measures 8”finished.

I am piecing them into 16”squares as I find it a little less daunting to have to make 36 of these rather than 144 x 8”blocks. 

Dumb I know but thats how my brain works.
It will be a very random scrappy quilt, but I am only using blues and browns/tans, plus whatever creamy/white backgrounds I have. I am NOT buying any fabric for this. I have laid out 2 of the 16 “ blocks. (unpressed)

I'm still having problems writing in Windows Live Writer. Something has happened to Google ( to me and alot of other people) so I am writing this directly to blogger. 
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I have been trying to send this post for over a week, but now have my photos in Google Drive and I can't seem to pick them up onto Windows Live where I normally write my posts. This time I am writing directly to blogger, so we'll see how it goes. Ah! today after wasting yet another 3 / 4 hours trying to blog from Windows Live Writer I find its a problem with Google. Hundreds of other people are having the same issues. Whew! at least it wasn't just me!!

I have been in a Doll Quilt swap run by Lori from Humble Quilts.
This was a lot of fun, although for me a little difficult, as I normally make large quilts
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This is my first attempt, but I was worried that the blocks at 4" were too large, although looking at other small quilts since then, I think it would have been OK.

 Sorry can't crop these today! 
 
Actually top right was my 2nd attempt, as the first time I made the pinwheels with no sashing, which I thought didn’t look as good.
3rd attempt …….

finally the finished quilt.
I unintentionally  cut the pinwheels alot smaller than I meant to, and they finished at 2”. I hand quilted in the ditch although you can’t see that from the photo.

I am in the final stages of added the borders to my Nearly Insane Quilt. I have pieced 112 of these time consuming squares. 

 


Now to try and figure out how wide to make the outside cream borders with the limited piece of fabric I have left over. I would like to make them 6” finished in keeping with the 3” borders shown here, but I wont have enough fabric as I also need fabric for the bindings. I think the bindings would look better in the cream also, but I’ll have to see.
I also made a pincushion for our office girl, who isn’t a sewer, but was telling me about something she was making and was having to put the pins on a table and try and scoop them up. Great little birthday gift!
 

 I used wool felt on the bottom of pincushion.

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Sue
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