Monkey’n Around
July 23rd, 2007 § 7 Comments
The Monkey & the Crab baby quilt is finished. Yeah! The baby shower is Saturday. I have been loving this fabric!
Tied up with a bow and ready to go.
I loved the fabric so much that I had to make a coordinating doll quilt… for me! I think there will be a new rule for gifted quilts. There will need to be a coordinating doll quilt for each quilt that is given away. Don’t you think that is a good rule? Now, I just need to decide if I want to machine quilt it – or – learn how to hand quilt and make an additional rule that all doll quilts must be hand quilted. I’m not a hand quilter by nature. It would be a good challenge for me.
And… if you want to join me in my doll quilt mania, here’s a pattern of the Monkey’n Around Doll Quilt.
fantastic color choices–my mom had our living room decorated in just this color scheme in the late 50s, early 60s–what incredible nostalgia washed over me when I saw this! Nicely done.
I can’t stand hand quilting – I really have to force myself to do it. But the results are incomparable…machine quilting is far too flat and uniform in my opinion. And hand quilting is only running stitch – I bet you can do that brilliantly.
I came to your site through whipup and I just wanted to express how gorgeous I think your baby and doll quilts are:) I do not know whether you decided to handquilt or machine quilt your dollquilt but I thought I would send you a link to my very first handquilted item. I thought it was a lot of fun and I used different embroidery threads throughout; it was not hard and though it is not perfect, there is a different feel to it in my opinion. Here is the link to a post I posted on wardrobe refashion (look at towards the bottom half of the page):
http://nikkishell.typepad.com/wardroberefashion/2007/08/bits-and-bobs.html
Hope it might inspire you to give it a try. Though I can see you are a much better sewer than I, I think it can be a great experience to have done at least once:)”
So thats my comment, hope you try hand-quilting your doll quilt if you haven’t already:)
All the best,
Christina
Very cool baby quilt. I love the doll quilt to go with it. Good idea.
Awesome quilt. Love the dolly quilt to. Got lots of stash. Maybe I can………….
momraggs aka Joan inIL
i would love to make my niece a quilt like that. is it possible that you could email me the pattern?
oh never mind i just found it thanks!