I’m excited about this project — it’s a nice change from my usual vintage cottons. The wool is very nice to work with, but no hand quilting on this project — it’s way too thick and many of the squares are a bit fuzzy. I am planning to tie it with yarn and back it…
The stitching of the verses was finished a while ago, but I just got around to taking photos. The Old Woman in the Shoe verse got a little jammed up, but I wanted to include the part where she whips them all soundly. There are several “nice” versions of the Old Woman in the Shoe…
Recently I purchased a group of old wool suiting samples. I have no idea how old they are, but they are definitely vintage — the stickers are yellowed and brittle and the swatches are mostly all wool, with a few wool/silk and wool/rayon blends, but with no modern synthetics. The patterns are cool, the fabrics…
Rather than make another quilt block yesterday, I decided to add text to the blocks. I just finished this Jack and Jill block which was the first one I colored/embroidered. I like the having the verses and it’s nice that most of the rhymes have four lines (although some of the blocks are going to…
I can’t believe I’m making another Mother Goose quilt when I just finished one last week, but I love these illustrations from The Very Young Mother Goose. I am trying to match the colors to the originals because that’s one of the things I love about the pictures — also the shapes of the trees…
This is one of the best purchases I’ve made on ebay — an old shoebox packed with over 5,000 vintage 1930’s triangles — and it was so cheap. They were obviously samples because I can’t find a duplicate in the thousands of little pieces. Also, a few had some glue residue or a bit of…
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe and Hey Didddle Diddle — two more blocks for this quilt, copied from “The Very Young Mother Goose.” These are a lot of fun and go quickly using Crayola crayons and 2 strands of black DMC. On ebay I found a big piece of vintage 36″ wide…
Tom Tom the Piper’s Son is my second quilt block in this series from The Very Young Mother Goose. Jack and Jill are on block #1. Now I feel pretty good about these blocks and they are going well, except I just noticed my wheel is more oval than round. I was thinking that some…
Several years ago I saw a darling scottie quilt for sale on ebay. It was a bit worn and stained, but I loved the pattern. I saved the photos from the listing and was determined to make one of my own. After drawing the pattern, I began to collect vintage fabric to make the scotties. …
Here is my second attempt at a Mother Goose quilt block from the book I posted on the 9th. I’m pleased with the way this turned out. The black embroidery outline is nice, I think, but you can’t travel much on the back because the floss shows through the lighter areas. It requires lots of…