Only stars to show this week — I seem to alternate between stars and flowers. Hop over and see Steffi’s pretty star and 2 flowers, one of which is fussy cut. Originally I was going to make all my flowers and stars with a yellow center. However, I really wanted to use some yellow print…
Colonoscopy — My tip for drinking Colyte
Today I am having a colonoscopy. For the past week or so I have been reading advice online and talking to co-workers about how to comfortably down 4 liters of the vile tasting Colyte. The tips involved selecting the least offensive flavor packet (lemon-lime according to most) and various techniques for the drinking — refrigerating…
Walker’s Hot iron Transfers #102 – Children’s Wear
There are a lot of transfers in this envelope — 3 big sheets filled with small and medium designs. These are numo transfers — they have raised blue dots and are one use only. Although none of the transfers had been used, they were a little brittle and some of the dots had flaked off,…
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Star Quilt — Week 2
Before I talk about the GFG quilt, I want to thank everyone for their encouragement and advice on my little business venture. I got some great ideas from readers and a plan is now in shape. After Christmas I’ll start creating instructions for my kits and begin the process of cutting all those little pieces….
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Star Quilt-a-Long
My friend, Steffi (Steffi’s Candy Quilts), and I are starting a quilt-a-long to make this amazing vintage Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt that Steffi found on nebraskahistory.org. Steffi, who lives in Germany, is making her quilt with new fabrics, and I am making mine with vintage fabrics. Of course, we want to extend an invitation to…
Vintage Zig-Zag Nine Patch Quilt Top
In the past two weeks, I have purchased three vintage quilt tops — two finished and one unfinished. One was extravagant ($130) and the other two more reasonable ($40), although certainly not a steal. The top I’m showing you today is one of the $40 tops and the first one I have received in the…
Vintage Embroidered Baskets Quilt Top
This top was purchased on ebay a couple of years ago, and it was so cheap — $20, including shipping. It’s difficult to determine the age of the top since there are no prints. If I had to guess, I would say 1930s or 1940s just because of the color and weight of the green…
Holly Hobbie Quilt Tops for Twin Baby Girls
The little twin quilt tops were stitched up pretty quickly since I was able to use speed piecing. I am not usually able to avail myself of these time-saving techniques since I am normally working with small scraps of vintage fabric. The process for making 4 Flying Geese was new to me — whoever figured…
Baby Quilts for Twin Girls – WIP
Our wonderful music teacher, Pam, is pregnant with twin girls. Although I’ve made lots of baby quilts for teachers at school and family members, these are my very first twins. Pam and her husband are both music teachers, so when their son Collin was born, I wanted to use a music theme for his quilt….
String Star Quilt Top
This top was made with a box full of quilt scraps from the 1940s and 50s. All of the pieces were 1 1/2″ wide in varying lengths, but none longer than about 15″. I thought perhaps the quilter had planned to make a log cabin quilt, but most of the color values were the same….
Strippy 4-Patch Quilt Top
This is the second quilt I am making from an antique one-patch top that I took apart — here is the first one. The four-patches are from the antique top, the setting triangles are a combination of antique and vintage scraps, plus some new fabrics. The vertical sashing is a reproduction print. This is another…
Alice in Wonderland Redwork Quilt Block #4
It’s been quite awhile since I posted an Alice block. I have so many different projects going on right now, it doesn’t seem like much progress is being made on any of them. Thankfully, Alice’s face on this block went pretty smoothly and I didn’t have to do the normal unpicking and re-stitching. I am…
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Doll Quilt – Tied
Several readers suggested that I tie the little Flower Garden quilt, and that idea really appealed to me. I’ve never made a tied doll quilt before, and I thought it would be fun to try. The top, backing and binding are vintage fabrics — the batting is an old flannel sheet. Although I’m fond of…
August Blog Break
I hope everyone has a wonderful August — I will be back in September.
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Doll Quilt Top
The top is done and I think it looks pretty cute. There are puckers in some of the white path pieces, but I can live with that. It’s tricky sewing the rows together since the pieces are so tiny — the flowers were easier to stitch. I wasn’t going to post a photo of this…