Lemon Tree Tales

Froggy, Teddy & Friends

I'm still in the middle of the freelance project. My deadline is this Friday! Yikes! But I figured that I'd make a quick post of two dolls that I made this past November. They were for my friend's granddaughters as part of an exchange. In return I received a beautiful clay sculpted menorah.

Here's the doll photos (forgive the bad quality, I was in a rush to deliver them and didn't have time to really light them properly):

 
 

They were made using Patti Culea's pattern: Frances Elizabeth, Mary Belle & their friend Davey Bob. The shoes are velvet, the little toys are felt, and the faces are drawn with colored pencil and Micron pens. (I always have a tendency to make the faces too light. I'll have to work on making them a bit more vibrant.)

Wall-Hanging in Progress

My living room is done in all shades of blue: cream walls with an 8" two-tone stripe near the ceiling, dark blue sofa and two denim blue recliners. It needed something extra, another color as an accent. Since our front door is a rusty orange I decided that orange would be our accent. How would I get that punch of orange into the room? Well, I've always wanted to make a quilt that I got to keep. (All the others have been baby quilts for friends and family ... I have to make another one as we speak, but that is for another day.)

I also wanted to use batiks in the quilt ... so after spending an hour at my LQS I bought a range of fabrics from the deepest dark blue to a light slate blue. Also included were three oranges: red, red-orange and a yellowy orange batik.

This is what I've done so far:

I need to add two borders to it - a narrow orange one followed by a 5" wide dark blue one. Then I'll quilt it.