Has this ever happened to you?
While making the Mountain Trails quiltalong from Lori's blog (http://humblequilts.blogspot.com), I had the blocks on my design wall behind my sewing machine. After transporting them from the design wall to the machine to sew them together, I found I was two blocks short, and thinking I'd not made enough blocks, I made two more. This was while working on two other quilts that day. I'm the kind of quilter that likes to have several projects going at once.
Much later, I found two blocks that had fallen from the design wall to the floor. Ahah! I had made enough blocks in the first place. Of course this was after the quilt was all quilted and bound. Oh well, what to do with two little blocks....throw them away, I guess. But they are so cute! What could I make out of two blocks? What about a pillowcase?
Here's the results:
And here's the happy little doll, in bed with her new pillowcase and doll quilt:
I'll show my Mountain Trails quilt, which I've named Straight Furrows, when Lori does her big reveal of all the little quilts. Hope you are having a great day in your quilt room.
Here's a small doll bed with a mattress filled with straw, and a pillow filled with batting. It needs some sheets and a quilt.
I looked in the cupboard to see what inspiration I could find, and found these:
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| Three tea towels |
The plain one can be the bottom sheet, and the other two can be a top sheet and a pillowcase.
Have you ever made French seams? When I learned to make them, I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread! First sew the seam with the fabric wrong sides together. Then clip the seam very close to the sewed line. Next, turn the fabric inside out and sew the same seam again, with the right sides together, capturing the first seam's selvage inside the seam.
Here is the pillowcase as I'm turning it right side out, showing the inside seam, all finished and with no raw edges.
And here's the little bed, now looking much better. The quilt is a string quilt that I made several years ago. It was an experiment in string quilting. I'm not very good at it, but it was my first attempt.
The quilt measures 13 by 17.5 and has birds as the center of several of the blocks. It was fun to do, and went very quickly. Hope you enjoyed the process of making the bed today.
