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.
5 responses so far ↓
dailystitches // July 24, 2007 at 5:43 am
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.
janet clare // July 24, 2007 at 11:50 am
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.
Christina // August 22, 2007 at 5:26 pm
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
Cathy Burt // September 24, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Very cool baby quilt. I love the doll quilt to go with it. Good idea.
Mom Raggs // October 27, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Awesome quilt. Love the dolly quilt to. Got lots of stash. Maybe I can………….
momraggs aka Joan inIL