Let's Keep It All Small

Yesterday's work - on quilty things that is - 

 I had made all my paper piecing patterns using a threadless sewing machine.

 I sewed up all the stem and leaf blocks and one flower block.  These blocks are 2 1/2" square.

Pretty small.

 

I also made one cow.  I fused my white fabric, traced and drew with an ink pen.

Now maybe I'll try a Guernsey, since those are the cows we used to have.  If he looks good, I'll make Guensey's.  How about that, Bev?

 This cow is 1 1/2" across.  Also pretty small.

 

New Tulip Project

I decided to get a new project from one of my many magazines or books that sit on my shelf.  I do so much from the computer these days, that I could almost forget that my books exist.  So I randomly pulled out a magazine and went through it to find a project.  I found this pattern that I had made a quilt of .  I don't have a pic, so I think I'll have to take one.

 I also found this

 and I made this crib quilt from that pattern.

 And lastly I found this

 And I don't have a pic of this either?  I'll have to go to work and take pictures.

Now I'm trying this.  It's paper piecing.  I'm not so good at that.

 I got one section done and it's a little rough.  And took a lot of ripping and quite a bit of time.

I'll see how today goes.

Ornament quilt

I got my little ornament quilt done.  Eloise came over and saw it laying on the table unfinished.  She asked what it was.  I told her it was a baby doll quilt and she went to put it on her baby doll, but I said it needed to stay where it was til it was finished.

 

After I did finish it, I was at her house and showed her this picture.  "My quilt!!"  It did give her some joy to see it with her dollies.

 

I let the zig-zagging around the edges be my quilting going through all layers.  

I'm not sure if I would do that again.

 

My house on the farm

On the farm that I grew up on, the house has gone through several different renovations. I was going to talk about all of them here but then I saw I already had a post on that and so you can go and hear the story of my home here.

I decided to do the home in the earliest stage when my parents bought the house. I don't know why exactly except maybe it has more of a vintage? look. I don't really remember it then, but I do remember building the new room to the house. The new room was to hold our ping-pong table. That's in the second picture in the old post. 

 Here's the whole scene.  See the little John Deere in the field?  I was driving that when I was 10 years old.  I had to quit when my brother became old enough to drive it.

 I'm taking this quilt just a bit at a time.  And I'm not fusing anything onto the background until I'm really sure about it.  That's why all the pins in it. At least now I have it hanging on the wall so I can study it all day long. And Eloise can enjoy the barn.  She likes barns.

Isabella's Sweater

After I made Eloise's, I had enough yarn of another color and and thought I'd give Eloise's friend a sweater to match (or almost) Eloise.

 

I think I did have one less skein because I wasn't able to do the pockets and only 2 flowers, so her flowers are arranged differently and I decided to go with brighter buttons.

My pics these days are with my I-phone as my camera quit on me, so it's a little harder to get good pics. But you can see the button.  Pretty cute.

 The girls were at school when I tried the sweater on Izzie, so I got a picture of Eloise with her.  What a look on her face.

 Ravelry link

Teri's quilts

These are two very nice baby quilts.

Eloise's New Doll

With Juliet crawling around and growing up, I figured it was time to make Eloise a bigger doll that she keeps at my house so that Juliet can play with the smaller one.

 This one is also a Jean Greenhowe doll.  It's Maid Marion with a few changes, especially in the area of hair.

 

A few of the embroidered details.

 

The ravelry link

 Eloise showing her off.