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Pieced Scottie Quilt Top – 1940s prints

Posted on March 13, 2012July 27, 2015 by Martha

Thank you everyone for your nice comments about the shop.  I have been working very hard this past week on the little doll kits. The plan for this Scottie quilt top was to make kits, but I wasn’t happy with it because the scale was all wrong.  I was concerned about the number of pieces,…

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One Patch Triangle Doll Quilt Top

Posted on January 27, 2012July 27, 2015 by Martha

This is another sample for a doll quilt kit.  It’s a 17″ square and, in keeping with many pieced quilts of this period, I don’t think I will add a border, although you certainly could if you wanted.  I’ve used this same set before on a table topper (with a border), but for the topper…

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Scrappy Snowball Doll Quilt Top

Posted on January 25, 2012September 14, 2016 by Martha

This will be my sample quilt for a new kit — a simple Snowball pattern in authentic 1930s fabrics.  Well — the 2″ plain square blocks are certainly simple, but maybe not the 164 tiny hand cut triangles.  Anyway, I do like this pattern, and it adapts easily to other types of fabrics.  Right now…

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Charley Harper Water Drop Quilt

Posted on January 5, 2012January 7, 2012 by Martha

It’s done, and I’m so happy to finally have all my Christmas presents finished.  The inside of the drop is pretty tightly packed, so I decided to quilt little amoebas between the organisms.  For outside the drop, I was going to quilt wavy horizontal lines, but after stitching a few, I changed my mind and…

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Cross-Stitched Tulip Quilt

Posted on December 7, 2011March 21, 2013 by Martha

This little throw is made with vintage blocks purchased from Barbara at Oodles.  The blocks were probably from a stamped quilt kit, and they have been stitched with green and a combination of variegated and plain pink floss.  Many times in these old sets the background fabrics are yellowed or stained, but these were in…

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Emily’s Wedding Quilt

Posted on October 29, 2011January 19, 2016 by Martha

Once again it’s time for the wonderful Blogger’s Quilt Festival sponsored by Amy, at Amy’s Creative Side.  For this festival, I actually have something new that I am pretty excited about. Question:  When your daughter’s wedding is over, what do you do with all the stuff you have spent a whole year making — stuff…

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Farmhouse Doll Bed and Quilt

Posted on October 19, 2011July 28, 2015 by Martha

Gordon just finished making the doll bed to go with Marjorie’s quilt — a Christmas gift.  The bed was designed by Ana White and is available as a free download on her site.  The directions are great — I only changed the length of the legs to make the bed a little higher off the…

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Quilts for Twin Boys

Posted on October 3, 2011August 4, 2015 by Martha

There are lots of projects I need to complete between now and Christmas, but I knew these little quilts would be first on the list.  Jenny S., one of the wonderful teachers at my (former) school, is pregnant with twin boys, and I wanted to make the babies some bright and cheery quilts. This is…

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9-Patch Doll Quilt — Tulsa, OK

Posted on September 19, 2011July 28, 2015 by Martha

My sisters and I had a wonderful time visiting our family in Oklahoma.  It was so fun to see Jean Ann and her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchild.  I can hardly believe my oldest sister is a great-grandmother. This is a doll quilt that I made for Jean Ann in 2002, when I first began using…

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Antique Nine-Patch Bar Quilt Top

Posted on July 28, 2011June 5, 2014 by Martha

The seller of this top thought it was made more recently than the other antique quilts at the estate sale she attended. The brightness of the double pink and poison green prints does make it look newer than quilts made with darker fabrics from this period. The top is 76″ x 80″, and is in…

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Vintage Nine-Patch Quilt Top

Posted on July 8, 2011July 28, 2011 by Martha

This scrappy quilt top was purchased last year on ebay.  It is entirely hand pieced with vintage dress fabrics (no feedsacks), and measures a generous 68″ x 86″ with finished squares measuring 1″.  I really like the random selection of prints and colors and, although I have spent a fair amount of time looking at…

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Vintage Dresden Plate Quilt

Posted on July 1, 2011July 1, 2011 by Martha

This is a quilt made by the grandmother of my friend, Cathy.  The print fabrics, and probably the solid yellow as well, appear to be from the 1930s.  It was quilted, however, using a more modern polyester batting, so I suspect that the top was probably completed in the 1930s or 1940s, and was then…

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Handkerchief Quilt

Posted on June 2, 2011September 18, 2016 by Martha

When Moda released these cute reproduction handkerchiefs in their own little case, I immediately thought of using them to make a quilt for my sister, Mary. This is probably the closest I’ll ever come to making a sampler type quilt, and it’s really not that close. I guess the one thing that makes it a…

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Nine-Patch Doll Quilt

Posted on May 29, 2011May 29, 2011 by Martha

Today I visited my younger sister, Mary, and I borrowed a couple of quilts I made for her so I could take some photos.   This doll quilt was made in 2003, only a few of years into my obsession with vintage fabrics.  It’s not a difficult pattern — just a simple nine patch.  My favorite…

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Blogger’s Quilt Festival – Feedsack Crazy Quilt

Posted on May 17, 2011May 17, 2011 by Martha

Whenever Amy does a new Blogger’s Quilt Festival, if I don’t have a new quilt, I try to select a quilt that I made before anyone read my blog. This is a quilt completed in 2003 when my daughter was leaving for college. She loved black and pink at the time, and of course I…

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