teddy family

This is the second quilt/ crawler rug for the newly expected grandchildren.

It is a Sindy Rodenmayer pattern from Fatcat designs. I adapted it a little to

suit. Sindy had her design as just the nine snowball blocks and then the binding.

Because I wanted it larger (the finished size 46" sq.) I added the half snowball blocks for a border. This is the one I started on a recent 3 day retreat. I had it on the backburner for a couple of weeks and decided to pick it up again yesterday and finish it.

Now for the next two. Ahh the indecisions of it all. I have another Ella and Skysie stitchery design 'beary rosy and friends' I'm thinking maybe that one, along with another Sindy Rodenmayer design.

farmyard friends

This is the first quilt made for one of my 2 expected grandchildren, due 2 weeks apart in October.

It is an Ella and Skysie design. The stitchery was my first attempt at such a large backstitch project (my stem stitch is discusting, can't do it and probably never will attempt it again) and turned out not too bad.

I really thought I would get bored and toss it in the too hard basket, but surprisingly after I did the first one, I thought 'mmm not so bad after all', then by the third one I thought 'I can do this'

By the time I finished the 12th I was looking for more. The origional one was done in brown stitching and patches with mainly blues in the 4 patches. I changed it to pastels and did the stitchery in different pastel colors. I also added an extra patched border because I wanted it larger to be used as a cot quilt.