dolly quilts

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 @ 10:42 pm
Filed under quilting, sewing

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Tonight while watching NCIS and Numbers I finished up some handsewing. A year ago I scoffed at handsewing, now I happily do it. I was sewing the quilt binding for two little dolly quilts. Emma loves to drape pretty much anything over her dolls as blankets so I guess that she was telling me to make some more dolly blankets already!

These might be small (the one on the left is approximately A4 paper sized) but they are so cute.

And they are my first ever quilts. I LOVE THEM!

After I finished them, I sat and looked at them for ages, smilling and thinking how clever I was. I went all dreamy-eyed - no wait, that was me looking at Gibbs and then Don Epps. Oh, and my little cute quilts.

I know, I really should have ensured they were exactly square before binding but the dolls won’t mind.

The “wonky” patch placement and freestyle quilting was intentional, even if the not-very-square part was a little mistake. No matter, I am very proud of myself and I know Emma and her dolls will LOVE their new little blankies.

I think they look quite cool and graphic here without their borders. Eh, maybe that’s just me.

Thanks so much to Amitie Fabrics for sending me the Heather Bailey Freshcut squares - did you know that if you have a blog you can sign up to join the Amitie Blog VIP Club and they will send you little packages of fabric every so often! How nice are they? This time around they are having a little contest - so Amitie, please consider these my entry!