Slow Sunday Stitching - Doll Quilt

Happy Slow Stitching Sunday!

Here is a doll quilt I am making as a Christmas Gift for my 4 year old granddaughter.  I think this quilt, a doll size pillow and a doll would make a sweet gift.  

I've been hankering for a hand project to work on at night while watching TV with my hubby.  I could quilt this on my machine in just a few minutes, but I think that hand quilting stitches will give it an old fashioned quilt feel. 

 Taped down in preparation of pin basting.

Pinned.

Testing the marking pin.

Passed the test!

The pattern came from the book, "The Civil War Sewing Circle", by Kathleen Tracy.

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Any ideas for a series to watch while quilting, that doesn't have too much violence, nudity or bad language?

We are currently watching "Hart of Dixie" on Netflix.  Its one we didn't watch when it was being originally shown.  Its pretty good, but a little silly at times, and not too violent, etc.  I already looked ahead on the internet to see what is going to happen.  Yay, Zoe and Wade end up together in the end!  Being a native southern girl, to me, the actor who played Wade, did a good job.

 I would recommend "Call the Midwife", if you don't mind seeing a baby born on every episode.  Loved that one.

We "tried" to watch "Outlander".  I could NOT hang in there with it.  The story was really good, but so hard to watch all the violence and nudity.  We gave up on it after a few episodes.  The older I get, the less I can take in the way of violence.  But, that's just me!  LOL 

This post is linked to: Slow Sunday Stitching -  Kathy's Quilts and to Monday Making - Love Laugh Quilt Blog.

 

Slow Sunday Stitching - Binding!

Today I am slow stitching the binding on the back of the "Kindergarten Art Quilt".  I am so excited to be so close to finishing it!  Can you believe these colors?  Its not my normal kind of quilt, but I love it!  It will be so bright and cheerful for a 6 year old.... the 6 year old who designed it with a blue ribbon winning art project!  

This was a simple pattern.   Not sure if it should be classified as a "Rail Fence" or a "Basket Weave".  I'll be posting pictures of the finished quilt in a few days.  


I should have been finished with it weeks ago, but just couldn't get motivated to work on it.  But later today it'll be done.  The quilting motivation bug has bitten me pretty hard.  I've already made progress on the next grandchild's quilt!  And dreaming of all the projects I want to work on.  Its been a while since I laid awake at night with quilting on my mind, but like I said the quilting bug has bitten me.

I'm linking this post to Kathy's Quilts "Slow Stitching Sunday."

Slow Sunday Stitching - Table Runner

Slow Sunday Stitching... Super Bowl Edition

I am linking this post to Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.

One of my favorite slow stitching activities is hand sewing down the binding on the back of a quilt.  In this case it is a quilted runner, so it won't take too long.  It will just be nice, slow and no stress sewing on a quiet Sunday afternoon.

This pattern can be found at Quilting Digest HERE.

Slow Sunday Stitching - Little John Deere Girl

This post is linked to "Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts" HERE.

I haven't done any hand quilting in a very long time!  This is one of the baby quilts I am working on for Victoria, my granddaughter who is expected to make her appearance around the Fourth of July.

Its a "whole cloth" quilt, which sounds better than saying its made from "cheater" fabric.  The reason I decided to hand quilt it is that there are already little dotted quilting lines printed on the fabric.  If  I had machine quilted this quilt, I could have probably finished it in a weekend.  But I am hand quilting it anyway and putting some grandma love into each stitch!

I couldn't resist the little tractors and flowers.  Victoria will be living on a farm out in the country with a John Deere tractor in the barn.

It'll be easy to quilt.  I'll just make long continuous straight lines from one side to the other.  I even found some quilting thread to match the color of the lines.

I intend to make a couple of more quilts for Victoria that have pieced tops, but I bet this one will be the favorite.  

In case anyone is interested, this quilting frame is one I've had for many years.  The brand is "The Ulmer Quilter".  We bought this one at a quilt shop in the North Carolina mountains, but they are still available and can be ordered at this website.  http://www.ulmerquilter.com/

Slow Sunday Stitching

Today is a perfect day for slow Sunday stitching.  I've been working on two new coasters for my hubby and me.  This afternoon I have been doing the hand stitching of the binding on the back just like I would on a quilt.

Here is my coaster before the binding was added.

The back.

The Hubby's Coaster. (He likes red barns and cows and such)

The back of his.

The hand stitching of the binding.

In progress.

Now I can sit my diet coke on my coaster.

This post is linked to Kathy's Quilts where she is hosting SLOW SUNDAY STITCHING.

Slow Sunday Stitching

I've been working on two toddler bed sized quilts for 2 of my grandsons who are brothers.  For a toddler bed quilt, the measurements are about 48 inches by 60 inches.

Today has been a perfect day for hand stitching the back side of the binding on the quilts. It a cloudy, rainy day as Tropical Storm Bonnie inches by.

As you can see the quilts have a football theme and I think this backing fabric is perfect.

I'll need to take pictures of the front of the 2 matching quilts soon!

This post is linked to "Slow Sunday Stitching" at Kathy's Quilts.https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/