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Month: May 2010

Sunshine and Shadow Doll Quilt

Posted on May 29, 2010August 5, 2012 by Martha

This is the only Amish style quilt I’ve ever made — a Christmas present for my mother-in-law, Gail, in 2002. It was a departure from the 1930s style quilts I was making at the time, but I was interested in trying the contrasting stitching in the quilting. I do think it turned out rather well,…

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Santa’s Follow-the-Colors Embroidered Quilt — Rows 3 & 4

Posted on May 28, 2010May 28, 2010 by Martha

You might have thought, justifiably, that I had given up on this project, but I have been plugging away at it. I have a few more blocks completed (including a little stocking for Emily), but not quite enough for another row. At the rate I’m going, I might actually finish it by Christmas. I was…

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A Circus Bedquilt — Maxfield Parrish

Posted on May 26, 2010January 11, 2017 by Martha

In 1904 The Ladies Home Journal, as part of their promotion of “Quilts as an Art Form,” commissioned 5 famous artists and illustrators to design quilts for their magazine. The Better Homes and Gardens publication, Century of Quilts, contains an interesting article about these designs with black and white photos of three of the quilts…

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Ocean Waves Quilt Top

Posted on May 23, 2010April 2, 2013 by Martha

Although I made this top years ago, I still haven’t decided on a quilting pattern. The idea for this quilt started with a group of vintage triangle swatches purchased on ebay. I was thinking about patterns that had lots of triangles and finally settled on Ocean Waves. Of course, I didn’t bother counting all my…

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Blogger’s Quilt Festival

Posted on May 21, 2010May 22, 2010 by Martha

This is my entry for Amy’s wonderful Blogger’s Quilt Festival. It’s the first quilt I posted about when I started my blog. Nobody actually read my blog back then, so I thought I would bring this little quilt back into the spotlight because I loved making it. A Quilt for Julie Martha Dellasega Gray, 2008…

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First Steps in Art

Posted on May 19, 2010September 25, 2012 by Martha

Isn’t this just the best cover ever — a huge garden filled with gorgeous hollyhocks, foxgloves and other flowers I can’t identify. It’s rare to see a soft cover book with a wrap-around cover illustration like this, and I am pretty happy with my work on the image repairing the gap where the covers had…

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Halloween Table Topper – Finished

Posted on May 17, 2010August 12, 2015 by Martha

I’m pleased with the way this turned out, and it actually was not that difficult. The only pieces that required sewing were the jack-o-lantern and the black and white bias borders. Every other piece was applied with fusible web, requiring only a good pair of short, sharp scissors. The final size is 38″ in diameter,…

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Sears Century of Progress in Quilt Making – 1933

Posted on May 12, 2010August 2, 2015 by Martha

This is one of two booklets I own which were published after the Sears National Quilt Contest associated with the 1933 World’s Fair held in Chicago. It is mentioned in the wonderful out-of-print book, Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 World’s Fair by Merikay Waldvogel and Barbara Brackman — a great story about the contest with…

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Halloween Table Topper – Continued

Posted on May 11, 2010May 22, 2010 by Martha

Thank you everyone for your birthday wishes, and also for the nice comments about this project. Yesterday I managed to finish two more sections of the topper, and I attempted to make the lines in the skeleton a little darker. I am having a lot of fun with this project — here are my next…

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I realize tomorrow is Mother’s Day, but it is also…..

Posted on May 8, 2010August 2, 2015 by Martha

My Birthday! Big Big Paint Book Whitman Publishing, 1936 I’m sure my cake will be just as pretty, but my mine’s going to need 58 additional candles 🙂

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Halloween Table Topper – WIP

Posted on May 7, 2010August 25, 2013 by Martha

This project originated with a Flickr image of a 5″ vintage Halloween paper doily.  I loved this image so much and thought it had potential as a table topper.  I blew up the image and tile printed it to create the main pattern which is about 36″ in diameter.  It took a little thinking and…

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My Own ABC Book – Endpapers

Posted on May 7, 2010September 25, 2012 by Martha

I suppose these are not technically endpapers (and really just the inside covers), since this book is a soft cover wrap. The artist is Elizabeth Colborne. Wouldn’t these pictures be wonderful done in redwork — or bluework? Of course, I see them in a quilt, with the bookplate changed to read: This Quilt Belongs To…

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My Own ABC Book – Y and Z

Posted on May 6, 2010July 3, 2012 by Martha

Sadly, this is the end of the Lenski alphabet letters. However, I have a special treat for tomorrow. There are wonderful endpapers in this book by a different illustrator which I will post tomorrow.

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My Own ABC Book – T, U, V, W, X

Posted on May 6, 2010July 3, 2012 by Martha
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My Own ABC Book – P, Q, R, S

Posted on May 5, 2010July 3, 2012 by Martha
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