Doll Quilts!

The doll quilts are both done! Each is sized for one IKEA doll bed, and each bed holds several dolls. Niece Ella's grandma is making luxurious sheets to accompany. Ella, her mom, and I chose the color schemes and fabrics together from my enormous stash.

Ella's favorite fabric is the plums. Me too. Here's the back:

This coin quilt was so fast, I made the entire quilt in a day, including hand-stitching the binding. I love the color combination:

Here's another fun back--extra coins and odds and ends. I am so glad I found a use for the background fabric--I don't usually buy fabrics with a white backround like this and it had been sitting in my stash a while. It works great in this project.



I washed and dried these for a very fluffy, puckery look.

Quilting on the bias

The trail mix quilting is in progress after about three weeks of procrastination! I got pretty burned out with the piecing process--this quilt has too many pieces.

The entire quilt is quilted on the bias, which is a nightmare! I have, for the first time I can recall, reached a point where I'm going to have to undo and requilt a line of stitching because it's cocked--I'm getting some puckering between parallel lines, probably because I was not allowing one of the lines to go through the machine at the same rate as the other. Frustrating. I'm enjoying the walking foot quilting look though, emphasizing the straight lines in the quilt with straight quilting before adding some awesome free motion stuff at the end. Can't wait for that to be done.