My second finish for the second quarter of the Finish A Long has been this long slow quilt, purposely so to take some hand sewing to Bourne Quilters meetings. This is the Doll Drss Up quilt, all finished.
This consists of 6 printed panels, 5 of which are shown here, which I embellished with embroidery, ricrac, lace and buttons. I then bordered with 1930's retro fabrics and hand quilted the backgrounds to the dresses with cross hatching. I then made 4 Dresden Plate blocks which were also hand quilted with cross hatching. In January when at Farnham Maltings I found some red fabric with white spots with was perfect for the binding strips to join the blocks together and binding the edges.
The only thing I though more about was the back. As you can see I had the same fabric for 3 backs of three of them. I should have looked at different fabrics for the backs, but was too late to change this by the time I was putting the quilt blocks together.
The finished quilt is 38" square.
As for block no. 6 of the 6 printed panels, this was made into a cushion last year.
Good to have this finished at last
That is so pretty. I think the back just shows that it was handmade and you are human and it wasn't pumped out by a machine!
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful quilt. The block designs are fun and I love your fabric/colour choices :)
ReplyDeleteVery pretty. The colours and fabrics you have chosen are spot on.
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