It's finally complete... Miss L's turquoise doll bed with a striped mattress and matching doll quilt. I do hope that she likes it. Maybe this weekend I'll make a matching pillow for it. But first I have to work on the set for Miss J.
The doll bed is a duktig from IKEA (very reasonably priced and it will fit an American Girl doll), and the quilt is one that I just made using a template from Anita Grossman Solomon's book Rotary Cutting Revolution. The mattress ended up a wee short but I don't think that it takes away from the effect. I didn't use covered buttons, just a series of unmatched ivory ones. Next time I'll use a colored floss to sew them on instead of the cream thread. I had a lot of fun making the binding... it seems to really finish off the quilt (16"x20"). The quilting is simple stitch in the ditch around the pinwheels and a bit of straight stitching on the border. Before I give it away I'll throw the quilt in the wash so that it gets soft and crinkly.
Now it's time to put a second coat of pink on Miss J's bed. Ooh, I can't wait to see the two of them together.
