Thanksgiving Quilting

Mom and I did some quilting over my Thanksgiving visit. We did a mystery quilt that I did in a one day class on the island last year. We strip cut one day and pieced the next day. Smokey lined up and pinned pieces to be sewn together, ripped out mistakes, and pressed blocks. Desperation set in when the iron broke. Mom made a phone call and soon I was off in the night to do a mid-street iron pick up. This is after she cheated and worked on the quilt she made for my sister while I was off visiting other family.

Believe it or not, this is the one I made on the island. It has borders and a Bear on it, but I swear it's the same pattern. Tatonka helped me decide that the blocks looked better turned to form stripes for this print. The backing fabric is zebra stripes. Someday I'll actually get the binding on it and get it back on the bed so it can be totally furred up.

Here is the Frog model of the quilt. He likes to show off his zebra stripes and hopes I'll chose to put this quilt on the bed stripe side up. What a helpful kitty.

Welcome

Welcome to my space for cataloging my fun with fiber. This is a dress I built for Meshayla and took to her at Thanksgiving. I have a second one cut out but was paranoid that she had grown a lot since I cut it so I took my scraps of fabric with me when I went to visit (thank you Aunt Mary) in case the straps needed to be longer. I think Smokey has some more pictures that I will add to this post later. Oh, BTW, it's corduroy with cherries on it!

Here is a closeup of the bottom of the side seam. I cut the pieces a little wrong so I added this ruffle to the back rather than also shorten the front. Mom was correct that her little dog would like this ruffle, he went straight for it when she put the dress on! I also was an inch short on ric rac so I added this piece of ribbon. It has my name on it and everyone assumed it was a label instead of a mistake! I got a whole spool of this ribbon when I was a little girl.