When I read Ann Champion’s post about her scrappy Antique One Patch, I told her I would take it apart and remake it. It reminded me of a quilt top I purchased that was very similar — 1 1/2″ squares with the same types of fabrics (indigo, shirting, homespun, mourning), random placement and rather crude…
Cactus Basket Quilt Top
Most of the blocks in this quilt were purchased on ebay, and I made an additional 20 blocks to complete the top. The fabrics are all vintage 1930s dress percales in typical colors and floral prints. The neatest thing about this quilt, in my opinion, is the careful fussy cutting on many of the floral…
Vintage Shirley Temple Doll Makeover
When my sisters and I were growing up, each of us had one special doll. I don’t remember the name of Jean Ann’s doll (she is 12 years older than I), but I vividly remember Sally’s Toni doll, my Miss Revlon doll, and Mary’s Shirley Temple doll. Sally made wonderful doll clothes for all three…
Our First Grandchild — Cross-Stitch, 1982
This is a picture I stitched for Gordon’s parents when Elliott was born. Gordon, Sr. (“Big G”) just turned 89 and Gail was 81 on the 4th of July. Big G continues to play golf every week, and Gail works part time at the Bellevue Square Mall information booth. We just celebrated their 60th Wedding…
More Jolly Rhymes of Mother Goose — Lois Lenski, 1922
This is the last of the Lenski nursery rhyme pictures, and there were a couple of rhymes here I didn’t know. This one is very sweet…. Bossy-Cow, Bossy-Cow Bossy-cow, bossy.cow, where do you lie? In the green meadow under the sky. Billy-horse, billy-horse, where do you lie? Out in the stable with nobody nigh. Birdies…
1 1/2 Years – 300 Posts
When I started this blog…. I only knew a couple of quilters — their quilts and methods were very different from mine. My sisters were the only other people I knew who did hand embroidery. When I shopped at the local quilt store for binding or backing fabric, the staff would make comments like “Why…
Happy 4th of July!
Because I rarely buy new quilt fabric, I only recently discovered that this vintage book has been reproduced as a fabric panel for making a soft book or quilt, but their book doesn’t have this cute patriotic cover. Tiny Tots Object Book Whitman Publishing, 1942 Illustrated by “C.E.J.”
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Process and a Gift
Steffi at Steffi’s Candy Quilts just mentioned on her blog that she has discovered a better way of sewing hexagons which she is going to reveal in her next post. I thought I would show a little bit of my process so we could compare. We both use a running stitch method (as opposed to…
Grandmother’s Flower Garden Doll Quilt – WIP
Here’s a project I started a few days ago. This little quilt was inspired by an unbelievably tiny GFG doll quilt made by Steffi at Steffi’s Candy Quilts. I couldn’t imagine making a quilt that small, but I really wanted to try it — my hexagons are about 1/2″ wide. The quilt is 21″ long…
Cunning’s Perforated Stamping Patterns Catalog
A couple of months ago I purchased on ebay a catalog of perforated patterns from the M. J. Cunning Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio. Included in the sale were 2 groups of actual perforated patterns — the holes are so tiny that I imagine the pouncing powder must have been very fine. Although there is no…
A Wedding
My daughter, Emily, and her boyfriend, Aaron, are engaged to be married, which is not exactly a surprise since they have been together since high school. Aaron is just like a member of our family already, and we are so happy to make it official. Although the wedding is not until next summer, Emily and…
Happy Father’s Day, Gordon!
Big Big Paint Book Whitman Publishing, 1948 Eileen Fox Vaughan, Illustrator
More Jolly Rhymes of Mother Goose – Lois Lenski, 1922
I’m not sure, but it seems to me that many children today cannot recite nursery rhymes. This is certainly true at the elementary school where I work, but since more than half of our students are Asian, their parents may not be familiar with the whole Mother Goose thing. Maybe the rhymes are thought to…
A Wonderful Gift From Ann
One of my most favorite things in the whole world is a bunch of vintage quilt pieces. I also like old tops, blocks and scraps, but cut out quilt pieces that were never put together are the best ever. So….I was pretty happy when I came home recently and found a surprise package from my…
Ladies Art Quilt Block #38 – Rose Album
Although this block doesn’t have nearly as many pieces as some of the other indigo blocks, it was probably the most difficult to stitch. I hand pieced most of the block, but the small domed muslin pieces around the center section were hand pieced (on the sides) and appliqued (around the top). It just seemed…