March already! The
snow is finally starting to melt. I
shouldn’t complain about it, I love living in a country where we have the four
seasons Each season has its good points, it just seems winter lasts longer than
the others. I’ve been busy working on miniature
quilts, I am really enjoying doing them.
When I started doing miniature quilts I thought they would go much quicker than full
size quilts do, but they take a long
time to make. The miniatures I am making
are mostly done with hand sewing, so I can carry it around with me and work on
it when ever I get a few minutes. The
one I have been working on is one made of Hexagons. I love the look of scrap quilts, and have
been making this one with hexagons. I
wanted it to be big enough to be a bed quilt for my 18” doll.
This quilt did take me awhile to do, first I
had to cut out the paper templates, then baste the material around the
hexagons, then I needed to sew all the hexagons together. I then added the orange border which has
become my favorite material, I used it in the easystreet project and decided to
border this quilt with it, I then finished the quilt by hand quilting it and
adding the white binding.I really like the quilt and am thinking about doing a large
quilt like it, but right now I am working on 2 other miniature quilts one using
the starburst and one doing blocks.
I
love block quilts!! I think it was one of my favorites when I first started looking
at quilts. I will do a miniature quilt
and might even make a baby quilt also using the blocks. Both are paper pieced so I can carry them
back and forth with me to work. I work
in a college, so instead of carrying a purse I carry a backpack. I always have something in my backpack pack
to work on. I’m always afraid that I
might be at work one day and the electricity will go out, and I’ll have to sit
there with nothing to do. I even keep some hexies in my top drawer just in
case. I want to work on the miniatures tonight, but sigh it’s my sister-in-law’s
birthday this weekend an I’m knitting her a decorative scarf and will have to work
on that this week.
