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Smaller quilts for small spaces

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Teeny weeny (sweet Sixteen) trial pattern


I spent today trying to develop a pattern for a teeny Weeny, or sweet sixteen.  Those are the tiny collections of 5 fat 1/16.  Yes, that's right 1/16, or about 9"x11".  I wanted to use as much of the fabric as possible, a lot like a puzzle.  Two failed trys, and the third try is oh so close.  Here is the fabric that I bought at Boardwalk quilts in Long Beach during our recent visit to go razor clam digging.  I will post the dry run using fabric that mom sent from Pennsylvania, all sort of vintage stuff, combined with two pieces of fabric that I came home with from the Wannabees ugly fabric exchange.  Hope to have a detailed pattern in a week or so and will post when ready.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

mom's electrical panel cover

Yes, that is the actual name of the quilt.  When mom heard that I had started quilting she asked for one to cover the electrical panel in her home.  Silly girl.  she really should have waited until I had a little more experience.  At that point in time I had only completed one kit quilt, hand quilted.  So, not having a clue what i was doing I began making a bunch of (guess what?) churn dash blocks and stars.  Mom had a particular size in mind for the finished project, and I had it in mind to make it 5 blocks by 5 blocks.  Sure that worked well.  My flying geese had some really odd measurements.  so anyway, machine pieced, hand quilted.