Today’s take-home from the library – I love it when a bunch of books I’ve ordered (and re-ordered!) all come in at once.
Today’s take-home from the thrift store (right down the street from the library). $1.50 of fabric (Maybe 3 yds total?).   The one on top is my favorite.
Can’t wait to crack into both stacks.
Don’t forget to check back – giveaway in just a few days! Thanks!
Little Hen and I had such a good time making our doll quilt for the show, and the weather has been so hot, we thought we’d spend yesterday and today indoors, keeping cool, and making some more scrap doll quilts.
I cut 2-inch squares from more fabric scraps in my stash, and Firecracker joined us as we played at laying out the pieces in different arrangements until we each had our tops laid out.
Firecracker lost interest and went to listen to Strega Nona on bookCD, so Little Hen and I sewed the pieces together for both her (in the foreground) and her sister’s (in the back) quilts.
I added borders, backing and top-stitched them while we all listened to Daddy read from our current chapter book.
A while back, I intended to have a little giveaway, but life got hectic, and I didn’t get around to it. So, here in the next week, I am going to have a giveaway, and will include, among other goodies, one of the doll quilts above.  Keep checking in, and let folks know. Thanks!
Little Hen, who loves to help me sew, has been asking if we could put makes some quilts for her dolls.   And then, a while back, I saw the invite to a Virtual Scrappy Doll Quilt Show and Challenge on From my Scrapbag and thought it would make a great project for Little Hen and I to do together.
We’ve been so busy, I haven’t had time to get out the sewing machine and dig through my fabric stash until two days ago! We look through the fabric scraps (I haven’t made a large quilt in ten years, so the fabric was a little dated, but the rules of the show dictated we must use up scraps), and decided on a blue on blue theme.  Little Hen picked out the block fabrics, and I selected the border fabric from leftover strips of a fabric I had used in Little Hen’s crib-sized Ohio Star baby quilt.
We went with a simple 4-patch quilt – something a 6 year-old could have a real hand in making. The finished quilt is 10″ x 14″, and I must say, Little Hen has a careful hand when it comes to piecing – the corners all meet nicely.
Little Hen sat in my lap, and together, we guided the pieces through the machine. Her favorite part was top-stitching to finish the quilt (with three little ones, and the late date of beginning this project, there was no way I was going to have time to hand quilt it!) It was a fun activity for us both, and we are planning on making her cousins and sister some doll quilts for Christmas gifts this year.
Please check out the comments section to visit the other quilts in this show.  That’s where the girls and I are headed right now!
