Two posts in one day!

I decided to do one more little “sketch” before calling it a day. It seems that as soon as I sit down at the machine, all my doodling ideas fly out of my head and I draw a complete blank. Oh well, it isn’t much but at least I did something.

Not sure what I will do with this, I might cut it apart and use the pieces for cardmaking The edges are unfinished but I wil probably finish them with paint if I use it for cards.

Now back to pondering the baby quilt!

What is this?

I used to make only traditional quilts, my favorites being scrap quilts with reproduction or real vintage fabrics. I still love these but in the last few years have moved into more of an abstract arty style. Yesterday while surfing the net, I came across some wonderful blogs that reminded me of my roots in traditional scrap quilts. There is a lady named Lucy who lives in the Netherlands and I spent a number of hours (yes, hours!) yesterday enjoying her blog as the rain poured down outside. Here is the link to her site called Quilting the Past. SHe inspired me to dig out some scraps and make a vintage style miniature quilt.

The tumblers are 1 1/2 inches high and the whole top is about 15″ x 20″. This shows machine quilting on my favorite machine, a 1955 SInger Model 201:

I am actually a bit farther than this now. I stitched the tumblers in the ditch and then free handed feathers in the borders. I am using a repro yellow for the binding. I should have a picture of the finished product tomorrow.

It does feel good to start and finish a project in one weekend! That doesn’t happen very often these days. I also knitted half a sock on a trip to IKEA Friday so this is the most productive fiberwise I have been in a long time!

Until next time….

A few more “sketches”

Thanks for the comments on my last little piece! I was encouraged to try a bit more tree sketching. I have never thought I was any good at drawing so it was a bit scary to try sketching at the machine without a pattern or anything to follow. But since I was working on small scraps of fabric and batting, I didn’t have anything to lose but time. This is what I ended up with:

Here are closeups:

I used light blue thread for the trees ( because it was already in the machine ) and again finished the edges with silver paint. Looks like it is time for me to clean my cutting mat!  The sizes are in the 4 1/2 to 6″ range. 

Until next time….

Baby Quilt Complete!

I finished the baby quilt finally. Just in time too as the shower was today! My daughter suggested I quilt it this way to resemble water or lily pads. Here is the front:

Here is part of the back:

It is actually a brighter yellow than this shows but I took the pic sans flash to see the quilting better. The mom to be liked it!

I did realize while quilting this that I am very out of practice as far as my free motion skills go. I think I need to do a few whole cloth quilts or something to get up to speed! I am very rusty but I guess the baby isn’t likely to care much .