We had a month to make the quilt and they are all being shared on cattinka`s blog today and we are sharing our own on our blogs today too. I do not have a doll but do have an ancient bear which like me will be 70 next year and when I was 50 Mum bought me another bear. However I am not using this as a quilt for the bears but as a mat for Pearl my featherweight machine she seems so at home on it! The quilt measures 12.5" x 15.5" . Due to my lack of piecing skills for small blocks I decided to do a scrap quilt, I save all scraps over 1" and had great fun joining lots of them together and making 30 blocks out of them I am so pleased with how it worked.I have machine quilted it with a random sort of swirl, this is the really tricky part for me but quite pleased with it though the stitches do vary a bit in size
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| sorting scraps |
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| lots of blocks |
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| the completed quilt |
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| close up of my attempted quilting |
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| my 50th birthday bear he is called Fortesque his name was attached to him |
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| my elderly bear poor thing is very bald on his body and even has a few holes in him. Have given him wool eyes as he has lost the original ones and have had to replace his paw pads many years ago. |
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| featherweight on the quilt inside her cover |
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| how at home Pearl looks on the quilt mat |
