Yay, Paula of Coffee Time Quilt Studio received her doll quilt today and it looks like she loves it! I'm so thrilled that it's now in a good home. I had a lot of fun finishing it up. I used a cotton hand towel for the border. If you'll remember from way back when, it's the same fabric that I used for a Wee Wonderfuls Put-together bunny last year. The design is from a book called French Braid Quilts by Jane Miller. Basically it's a version of a cornerstone log cabin. Pretty easy to put together.
The one thing that I discovered while reading Paula's blog is that
she's recently been stuck on all things stitchery. So I added the
little embroidered "dream" at the bottom and four Swarovski crystals for good measure. Here's a little close-up shot.
I pieced the back, both because I like that look and also because I didn't have quite enough of the purple fern print fabric. The quilting is with multi-colored Superior thread which is awesome to machine quilt with. It's so smooth, no problems whatsoever. And finally, my Radical Rachel doll (made years ago from a pattern by Patti Culea) insisted that she matched the quilt and wanted to pose. Ah, what can you do when your doll makes demands like that? The only thing to do - comply!
This was such a fun swap to do. What a perfect excuse to try out a new technique. Now I can't wait to see what my swap partner's made for me. :-)
