First of all, I wish you all a very Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year with lots of time for quilting!
Oh what a year this has been, lots of ups and downs but all in all it was a pretty good year. I am looking forward to 2017.
I have some finishes to show off, the last of 2016. I finally finished the big quilt for my bed, it was quite a job, but I love it.
This pattern is from the Jan/Dec 2012 issue of Quilt magazine, it is Dazzling Scraps on page 15.
The designer is Paula Barnes. The original design is for a 64" square quilt, but I wanted it much larger so I sat down with graph paper and drew it out to make it a 96" square quilt. It is all squares and half-square triangles. It was a bit challenging to get it to the larger size, but it was worth the work.
And Let It Snow is complete!
This was a BOM by Buttermilk Basin for 2016. I love snowmen so when I saw the first block, I knew I had to make it. The BB version is done in wool on cotton but I don't have much wool to work with so I made mine in all cotton. I had fun with all the embroidery and embellishments.
A couple of weeks ago I decided to start cleaning up the stash. I had a lot of panel prints that are going to my oldest daughter. There were way more than I could ever finish, so she can have some fun with them. I pulled out four projects to try to finish. I had taken a machine quilting class at my LQS years ago. One of the pieces we worked on was a small panel print that sat unfinished for ages. I finished it up, bound it and am using it as a large hot pad.
It is nothing fancy but it is pretty and works in the kitchen. I also had two panels to make aprons out of. Here is one of them. The other I gave to a friend who further embellished it with some embroidery. I don't have a photo of hers.
Once I had those finished, I felt pretty good getting four old projects done! Next, I decided to make some doll clothes for my DGD's doll that I gave her for her birthday a few months ago.
I used some scraps from my current quilt project for the dress and I think it is adorable and it fits!
I will make a few more clothes for her, now that I know the fit is correct. The doll dress was fun but so much work with the tiny seams. I found my old White machine that is in the heading of my blog worked best for sewing the tiny seams and tight spaces.
Here is Maggie, the 1952 White Rotary machine all dressed up for Christmas.
My current project:
It is another panel I had. I finally found a web site that had the coordinating fabrics for the two borders I wanted. I have started quilting it. The panel is very cute and it will make a nice wall hanging for Spring.
I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and hope 2017 will prove to be a great new year!
