Sweet Maggie, over at ShortCookie.blogspot.com, made this beautiful twin sized quilt
for Operation Sunshine!!!
Yahoo!!
Isn’t it lovely?!!
She said that she used this pattern from April over at A Little Bit Biased.
So cute!
I really love the color scheme Maggie chose and the borders she put on it.
Here’s the pretty backing…
Thanks SO much, Maggie, for this wonderful quilt!
It is going to make someone in this family very happy!!
This Easter I decided to get out of my comfort zone of sewing dresses only with cotton, and went with some hot pink satin and some sheer white wedding type fabric. (What’s it called??)
I basically cut out two dresses, one out of each fabric, and sewed them together to have the pink show through the sheer white fabric. It turned it to a more of an icy pink. I think it turned out rather nice!
You can see the color of the satin as it’s what I used in the sash and the sleeve trim.
I was going to make a matching dress for her 18” doll like I did last year, but I got a little burned out on trying to keep double layers of slippery fabric together and decided that one dress is enough. She didn’t know I was considering making a doll dress, so she is not disappointed. :)
I hope you had a lovely Easter!!
Linking up with Quilt Story’s Fabric Tuesday
Last week, Annie from Annies Ruby Slipperz held a giveaway, and would you believe it, I won!!!
Woohoo!
Three gorgeous charm packs of Honey Honey by Kate Spain.
So pretty!
I’m excited to see what kind of quilt they will end up making. :)
Thanks Annie!!!
For Liberty Girls this semester, we are reading and doing activities based on the book “Little House in the Big Woods” by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
It is such a great book!!!!
Each semester in Liberty Girls we read a historical series or book about a certain time period, and meet twice a month and do activities based on the book(s). I’ve been helping some of the girls by sewing period costumes for them and their 18” dolls each semester as some of the moms of our group don’t sew. (See here and here.) But this semester I decided I had better not try to sew more than my own daughter’s outfit, and it is turning out rather fun! Each girl is coming up with their own outfits and they are all looking great! We’ll have a family barn dance at the end of April and I’ll take pictures of everyone then and post them here on the blog.
Since my daughter’s favorite color is pink, that’s what she wanted her pioneer dress to be! PINK!
Pretty cute, don’t you think?
The pattern had pantaloons with the dress so I made them. I think they are cute but a little long. :)
She loves her American Girl doll!
We were going to read the “Kirsten” series from American Girl dolls this semester, but I have to say, I wasn’t at all impressed with the series. Sure, it has some nice parts to it, but I felt the story line was quite mediocre and there were really no good values being taught. (IMHO, life is too short to spend time reading mediocre books!!!) So, last minute, right before the semester started, we switched to “Little House in the Big Woods!” You can’t ever go wrong with Little House!!!
However, I did use for the Kirsten doll dress pattern and it can be found here:
http://www.agplaythings.com/AG%20Patterns/DollDressPatterns.html
Linking up with Quilt Story’s Fabric Tuesday
It’s here again!!! Woohoo!
When I began quilting again last year, I also began realizing that there were a ton of wonderful quilting blogs out there! (Who knew!) One of the blogs I quickly fell in love with was Confessions of a Fabric Addict. I LOVE that she is so involved with doing charity work with quilts!!! I discovered her blog just after she kicked off her Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge last year, and I KNEW I had to participate! You can go here to read about the awesome quilt I had a chance to make for the challenge last year. (That sounds a little self-serving, but once you read why it was so awesome, I think you’ll understand why I can say that! :)
Anyway, it’s that time of year again. If you want to see what it’s all about, or get involved, go to her site and read all about it.
Happy Quilting!!
A couple of days ago I met my friend Marion from My Quilt Diet and she gave me a quilt top and a finished quilt for Operation Sunshine! Two wonderful ladies donated these quilts and took them to Marion, who in turn brought them to me.
The first one is an adorable quilt top from Pamela Caldwell from French Knots!
Such lovely blues!
This will make one of the girls very happy!
And this cool quilt came from Emily Herrick from Crazy Old Ladies! Yup, you’ve probably seen this quilt somewhere before…
It’s a quilt from her Geared For Guys book! The very one she made and that has been to international quilt shows. Wow! How cool is that?!
This will make one of their boys very happy! :)
So, to Pamela and Emily, I thank you both!! You have both been so kind in your donations. They will be very appreciated by this family!!
Sweet Jeanenne Nielsen sent this cute quilt to me in the mail for Operation Sunshine!
What a sweet D9P! One of the little children of this family will love it!!
And Jeanenne’s good friend Liesha Farnsworth donated the quilting. Didn’t she do a beautiful job?!
Thanks SO much Jeanenne and Liesha!! They will love your quilt!
