Kirsten on Creative Binge!

Kirsten is on another creative binge!  She has her blocks up on the design wall and is considering experimenting with strip quilting and maybe even brighter colors.  The sky is the limit!

Here is Kirsten's latest patchwork quilt! It has alot of different fabrics in it and a wider more jazzy border.  She has named it "Elephant Quilt" because of the one block that has an adorable elephant on it. 


the Elephant Quilt was completed on 01/29/2013



New Years Eve Quilt



Kirsten and friends enjoying New Years Eve Quilt

Kirsten and friends really like her new lap quilt! She is quite the little quilter.  It is called the 'New Years Eve Quilt" because that is when it was done. Finished at 11:41 p.m. on December 31, 2012.

Kirsten, American Girl doll, has caught the quilting bug!  She just loves blue and white.  Here she is holding up her "blue and white quilt" she began on September 14 and completed on September 17.  On the back is a casing to make hanging it up for display a cinch.  The front has some buttons and a posh polka dot ribbon attached in the binding for added interest.

Happy Butterflies Doll Quilt - I finished my latest doll quilt yesterday evening.  That scalloped binding about drove me nuts. I am glad that is over.   Oh, yeah, it's the hard that makes great!  I like it very much.  It measures 21 1/2 X 21 1/4 inches.  The batting is a heavy piece of white flannel. The wings are pieced triangles, bodies are hand applique', antenae are embroideried.  The hardest part was sewing the binding onto the scalloped edge.

The binding on this scalloped quilt is giving me fits, but I think I am passed the worst of it.  I think I may go back to making exploding pineapple quilts! They are much easier. Oh, yeah, Tom Hanks says "If it were easy everyone would do it. It is the hard that makes it great."  Okay, now that I have regrouped my attitude, this quilt is going to be great when I get passed the hard part.  I should have a photo posted before I go on a roadtrip with my daughter, beginning August 2nd.  See ya!

2010 Bear Paw Doll Quilt - It would seem that I neglected to put the bear paw doll quilt on here.  Well, the more doll quilts the merrier!  Here it is!  I finished this on April 5, 2010. It is one of Kirsten's quilts, naturally.  If someone would just get me a Molly doll, then I can make some for her.  Wouldn't that be fantastic!?