My Sister's Doll

Photo of my sister and her doll.

The story of my sister's doll began 68 years ago. My mother started working on it before she was a year old. My Mother and sister were staying with our maternal grandparents in Arizona while our father was serving in  the Korean War. Money and materials were both in short supply so it took some time for her to finish it. Our Grandfather was working as a mechanic at a cotton mill and would bring home bits of cotton for her to use as stuffing.

After all these years the poor little thing was in pretty bad shape. My sister asked me if I could repair her hair and shoes, and make a new pair of socks for her. I was honored to help my sister with this project. 

I found a photocopy of the original pattern and ordered it. I hoped it would have instructions for doing the doll's hair and possibly a pattern for the socks. The pattern really was a help for the hair, but when I knit the a sock according to their instructions it did not fit, so made up my own pattern.

My sister has was really happy with the results! This doll will be passed down to my oldest daughter and will be in the family for many years to come.

Photo of the original pattern

Before photos

After photos.

Here she is, already to go home!

Happy Quilting, Rebecca

Fair Entries and Silent Auction

I entered two quilts in the quilt show this year and donated three Silent Auction items.

 My first entry was this twin size quilt. The pattern is called "Lanterns of Hope",  from Hollyanne Knight's site,  A String and a Story. Here is a LINK to her online shop and a LINK to her blog. If you are looking for a fast to sew quilt, this is it. I cut it out and sewed the top together in a weekend. I did the quilting with my Baby Lock Tiara using a variegated thread.

Lanterns of Hope, twin size. 

And I entered my Feed the Cat quilt. I went a completely different direction with my fabric choices than what I had originally intended. I am happy with this cheerful little quilt. This one finished at 28" X 18 1/2".

The back, complete with hanging sleeve.

Close up of the backing fabric

Now for the Silent Auction items. I had leftover blocks from the Rainbow Rail Fence charity quilt I made for the guild, so turned them into a throw size quilt. 54" X 66".

Donated "Who's That Moose in the Window"

Donated "Quilt With a Happy Heart"

Here are a few photos of our Silent Auction display.

Happy Quilting! Rebecca

Deltana Fair

Once again it is time for our local fair. I went in on Thursday to help hang quilts. We did not have as many entries as the last few years.

Here we are  getting started, I meant to take photos as we worked but I was just too busy!

I will start with the Grand Prize winner. This quilt was made by our guild's treasurer.

The front.

The back.

Now photos of the rest of the entries. Lots of blue ribbons! I was told, if the quilt earns the points on the score card, they get a blue ribbon.

Each year we have People's Choice Awards for the three favorite quilts. The fair attendees vote for their favorite. I have a feeling this one will win!

Smaller, wall hanging size quilts.

I was told the bottom one, red and blue,, was made by a 5 year old as she sat on her Mom's lap at the sewing machine.

This was our guild's raffle quilt this year.

2018 Raffle Quilt

Next time I will share my entries and the Silent Auction items. Happy Quilting, Rebecca

Kaffee Fassett BOM and I found a Squirrel!!

Another blog post but it will be short and sweet! It is hard to believe, but I am actually keeping up with the Kaffe Fassett Mystery BOM! I completed the 16, 16-patch blocks. There are a total of 36 snowball blocks. Month 5's set will come in towards the end of the month.

And I picked up a Squirrel along the way!

Bonnie Hunter announced her Leader/Ender Challenge for this year, you can read about HERE. But I just wasn't feeling the love for this years Challenge. Then I read Julie's blog posts, HERE and HERE.  The Scrap Vortex quilt has been on my radar for awhile now and it will make an excellent leader/ender project. So I joined the Squirrel Club! I got a few scraps matched up as I sewed the BOM blocks.

Happy Quilting, Rebecca

Kaffe Fassett Mystery BOM

I signed up for a Kaffe Fassett Mystery BOM with the Fat Quarter Shop back in February. I received the first month's fabric in March. The first month came in this box which included a bundle of 10 fat quarters.

 So far I have completed the first three months on time. They have all been very simple Snowball blocks. I am very curious where this quilt is going.

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Happy Quilting! Rebecca

Not Much Sewing

Not much sewing has been going on here. Lots of other projects have taken precedence. A major plumbing malfunction was one of them. But I did get the baby quilt done for our neighbors grandbaby, just in time too. the baby is due any day. I took photos outside and inside, I have to say the true colors are some where in between.

A peek at the backing fabric. I just did a loopy meander for the quilting.

26 more Diamond Tile blocks kitted up. I sure hope I have some sewing time soon!

I did do a little online shopping. This is a great book for hand piecing, and she shows how to press each block too.

I purchased this pattern after seeing Gretchen's version HERE. Her quilt is just beautiful!

I got to spend some time with my youngest son and this little Cutey Patootie over the weekend!

So I have done a little blog reading just recently and there have been lots of comments about comments. Bloggers have been saying that they no longer come to your email. I wonder why they changed things? It was working just fine for us. I saw a suggestion to leave a comment on your own blog and then request to get notifications of other comments. Well I guess I will see how that works out.


Happy Quilting, Rebecca