More roundup of quilt projects
Some more pictures of the doll bed quilt. The dolls here are porcelain dolls made and painted by a friend.
These shots were taken before we put the composition dolls on display.
Here's one I'm still working on:
You can see more shots of these projects here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25202685@N08/sets/72157616873039949/
slideshow here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25202685@N08/sets/72157616873039949/show/
Here you can see the corner and the window curtain quilt.
The cat is named Aramis, and the yarn rug is to make him happy, even if it doesn't really go!
This is a view of the duplicate quilt I gave to my surgeon back in 2005, after surviving for eight years. Fortunately, completing it coincided with a staff morale-raising conference at the hospital, and it hangs in the hospital as a reminder to staff and patients. The block pattern is called "Jacob's Ladder", and progresses from the dark block on the bottom, which symbolizes the day of diagnosis to me, diagonally upward toward the pink block with the Cancer Society pin on the upper end.
A cheerful kid's quilt I did in 2005 for one of my grandsons. I don't have a shot of the matching dinosaur quilt. The boys are still using these quilts.
A flower seed packet print inspired a garden quilt for my daughter who plays in the dirt.
This 2008 project was a doll quilt for a friend who likes music a lot. It's called "Music Goes Round and Round." I also made two pillows, matching pillowcases, bottom sheet, and matching top sheet.
This is a quilt sized for a one-third scale doll, about 23" tall.
The quilt block is called a Disappearing Nine-Patch because you sew it as a simple nine-patch and then cut the block and rearrange it.
Blue Magic, a doll quilt set for a friend:
Two different quilts for a friend, one small 1/4 doll scale and one 1/3 large doll size:
The cat approves of Dance's 1/3 scale bed quilt called Temple Court, in a Gods-eye quilt block pattern.
This is an older wall hanging quilt done for the Hoffman fabric challenge contest in 2007.
A single-block wall hanging as an experiment called Garden Maze:
These shots were taken before we put the composition dolls on display.
Here's one I'm still working on:
You can see more shots of these projects here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25202685@N08/sets/72157616873039949/
slideshow here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25202685@N08/sets/72157616873039949/show/
Here you can see the corner and the window curtain quilt.
The cat is named Aramis, and the yarn rug is to make him happy, even if it doesn't really go!
This is a view of the duplicate quilt I gave to my surgeon back in 2005, after surviving for eight years. Fortunately, completing it coincided with a staff morale-raising conference at the hospital, and it hangs in the hospital as a reminder to staff and patients. The block pattern is called "Jacob's Ladder", and progresses from the dark block on the bottom, which symbolizes the day of diagnosis to me, diagonally upward toward the pink block with the Cancer Society pin on the upper end.
A cheerful kid's quilt I did in 2005 for one of my grandsons. I don't have a shot of the matching dinosaur quilt. The boys are still using these quilts.
A flower seed packet print inspired a garden quilt for my daughter who plays in the dirt.
This 2008 project was a doll quilt for a friend who likes music a lot. It's called "Music Goes Round and Round." I also made two pillows, matching pillowcases, bottom sheet, and matching top sheet.
This is a quilt sized for a one-third scale doll, about 23" tall.
The quilt block is called a Disappearing Nine-Patch because you sew it as a simple nine-patch and then cut the block and rearrange it.
Blue Magic, a doll quilt set for a friend:
Two different quilts for a friend, one small 1/4 doll scale and one 1/3 large doll size:
The cat approves of Dance's 1/3 scale bed quilt called Temple Court, in a Gods-eye quilt block pattern.
This is an older wall hanging quilt done for the Hoffman fabric challenge contest in 2007.
A single-block wall hanging as an experiment called Garden Maze: