Hitty doll quilts

This was a special Exhibit of doll beds and quilts at International Quilt Festival in Houston. I visited this exhibit like many others....lets just say more than once. To get an idea of size - Each orange sign is 8.5" x 11" paper. Also, in the link below their are other photos with the sets photographed with a ruler. "Sleep Tight: Doll Quilts and Beds Contest" Little Red Schoolhouses Judith H. Gunter - Maryland USA 3rd Place Traditional There's a Rabbit in the Flowerbed Samantha L. Nixon…

Good Morning Friends & Folk! 'tis Wednesday...and sunny & bright here at the farm ~ In case you didn't see it on our Class & Events Schedule update, we will be holding a Doll Quilt {9 patch} Class here in the Studio on April 27th 2019 from 10:00- 4:00 this will be a class for HAND STITCHING your doll quilt. students will be able to choose from a variety of pre-cut fabric quilt squares & fabric for backing. then learn how to stitch them together to create a 9 patch doll quilt ~ the photo…

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From judybrown.hittysplace.com “In 1983 a friend introduced Judy to a delightful story about a little wooden doll. Her imagined adventures have intrigued numbers of readers since 1929. ̶…

Several things were made for Hitty Farley's room box. If you are familiar with the book Hitty, Her First Hundred Years , by Rachel Fie...

Spring has made it's way, grudgingly, into central Iowa. Days have ranged from OK to lovely, but the nights are still nippy, so Magdalena and I made a quilt for her to snuggle under. I'll tell you how we did it. I had in mind that, being the short-cut-taker that I am, I would buy one of those little packs of precut 2 1/2" fabric squares at the quilt shop. It would contain a collection of Civil War era reproduction prints, and they would sew up quickly into a darling small quilt. So ran my…

Several things were made for Hitty Farley's room box. If you are familiar with the book Hitty, Her First Hundred Years , by Rachel Fie...

image via Edyth O'Neill Izannah inspired doll in back and cloth doll front center by Edyth O'Neill Small Izannah doll by Elaine Mc...

I used these favorite colors to tie together a small doll bed quilt and a little antique chest of drawers given to the doll family several years ago by Jack. He found it at the Boerne Antique show and surprised me with it. Friend Elaine made and dressed the small Izannah type doll, a precious gift to me, and her mother Martha made the small braided rug in the mix of browns and blues. Both of these women are superb fiber artists. To make the little quilt, I sewed extra brown strips around an…

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