Saturday 18 May 2013

Bloggers' Quilt Festival - Spring 2013, (take 2)

For my second entry into the Spring Festival I am entering my wee Dollies Quilt into the Doll / Mini category.

In August, I will be attending, and teaching at, the Stitch Gathering, in Edinburgh.
I think this will be the first retreat get together of its kind, in Scotland and I can't wait to meet up with blog friends that so far I know only in a virtual way. My little class is to be on Crazy Quilting, a very traditional technique but we will be giving it a modern twist. I had been looking for an excuse to buy one of the Ikea Dolls' beds and this was the perfect one. I put together a little quilt made up of 4" crazy blocks, each one sticking to a colour family, and each one stitched by hand.





The little quilt measures 18" x 13" and was hand quilted using embroidery floss, and then embellished with colourful buttons. The binding was done by machine, I have my limits.
Making this little quilt and buying the bed has launched me on a new journey.......to make a pile of little dolly quilts so that when my grand daughter is old enough to understand the Princess & the Pea, she will have her own real life scene from the fairy tale.
Linking this to the Festival. Thanks to Amy once again for organising such an event - I got a bit confused at voting time last time but think it may be a bit simpler this time around.
Thank you for visiting.

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15 comments:

  1. What a fun and adorable little quilt. The fussy cut centres of the crazy blocks are so cute. I expect your class will be the best.

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  2. Beautiful wee quilt. I hope tat you have lots of fun in August at the Stitch Gathering. Di x

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  3. This is so gorgeous! I love the hand stitching and the button is just gorgeous. The little girl will have great fun

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  4. This is such a fabulous tiny quilt

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  5. Another gorgeous quilt! Every time I see this mini I want to make lots of minis for my wall...I never seem to get round to starting, though!

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  6. Your granddaughter is very lucky - I'm sure she will love having a pile of quilts to play Princess and the Pea. Juliex

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  7. The perfect wee quilt to enter! Jxo

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  8. So much work in such a tiny quilt. I love all that colour and the extra details. Great entry, Sheila.

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  9. what a great idea to put this cute doll quilt into the BQF! I didn't know you could enter twice!! Thanks for featuring our retreat here too Sheila :)

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  10. Very cute quilt! I love the button accents!

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  11. Gorgeous and love the buttons. Question for you Sheila - will there be a pea in the bed?

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