Lady Quilt

The first of a short series of  'Lady Quilts' is finished. These are all in brightest fuchsia pink and lime green.

One of the upper corners is a large square of lavender satin with a padded touch square in the center and an appliqued crochet piece from a collection of medallions and motifs someone gave me. Tactile in the extreme!

 

One of my favorites for texture: a wool square with velveteen flowers, 

fleece leaves and satin ribbon stems.

 

 

A square of what I call 'lady print' flannel with grosgrain ribbons. 

There is a foam bead in the center square to discover.

Button feature.

  The button is on a length of cord that allows it to store in a deep slit pocket. Pulled out, it may be hooked with the loop or slipped into the little patch pocket.

Green fleece and pink felt high heels for fun.

Gold color machine embroidery, couched yarn, a row of curved stitching and two lines of couched embroidery floss. Great textures, interesting embellishing for a sold square.

This piece of quilt blocks fit into the space of two blocks of the quilt. 

Carolina Lily pattern, it has flocked pieces: 

the pink print and the yellow print have excellent texture. 

The center square had a small drawstring bag attached. 

Paracord ties are long enough to allow it to flatten, revealing the silk lining.

I almost omitted this feature but when I showed it to Suzanne she thought 

it would make a fun item for busy hands.

Perhaps my favorite, a velveteen square has a column of shallow pockets, some ribbon loops and a prairie point in the style that Nancy Zieman teaches on her web site.
 

This quilt has 12" squares. There are enough 12" squares to make a second one, but I may slash them into smaller pieces for a different look. The next quilt has 8" squares. The various tactile items and embellishments are mostly done, ready to sew together. 

This quilt is backed with pink flannel. Since there is no batting, these quilts do not require quilting to hold the batting in place. Minimal quilting makes for a softer quilt. There is enough straight line quilting to hold the lining in place and a little reinforcement where I think there might be stress, like under and around the drawstring bag. 

The vintage Carolina Lily blocks were hand pieced, so I topstitched where the seam allowance turned back to make sure they didn't come apart before I assembled the top. Once the quilt was put together I stitched along the ditch a few times to hold the backing in place.

Pony Paradise Project Completed

Starting with a yard of Pony Paradise fleece and various scrap fabric and found goods, two Touch Quilts emerged.

Each features a sunrise or sunset, a pocket or two, ribbon touch tags and prairie points to explore. The one above has a felt hat with ribbon band and a padded silk square for rubbing or patting.

 This quilt has two pockets to explore and a vintage bear claw quilt block, stoutly reinforced.

Both quilts are backed with blue flannel. Quilting is random.

Some cowboy lost his hat.

Elephant Walk

When I ordered off for fleece and flannel, a piece of elephant print velour was the best bargain I found. It was the only print of its kind and the only juvenile print that I bought.

I cut off a piece to use for backing for a future quilt and cut the rest into squares to alternate with other touch blocks. This quilt is backed with khaki colored flannel.

 

Shallow pocket for exploration.

Prairie Points in blue are among my favorite

trims. They can be explored from the open 

side and have no raw edges.

 

A good view of the little elephants and my 

applique elephant with ribbon ear.

 

Not a real pocket, just a corner to explore.

 

Ribbon loops 

 

A real pocket on yellow fleece.

 

 Another look at the elephant.

 

The darker red square is fine-wale corduroy.

Kind of a Cowboy

It seems as if a story should accompany Touch Quilts. If nothing else, something to spark a little conversation from visitors.

 

This block is an applique cut from a fabric with western designs. The lightest and darkest parts of the lasso are couched yarns. The little square at upper right has some waste threads underneath to give it a raised effect.  

 

Cowboy boot has some texture added underneath

and some couched thread.  

 

Rooster from a tea towel.

He has trapunto effect with poly fiber and stitching.

 Red fleece, faux leopard, and a square 

of blue silk, all for tactile effects.

 

A denim pocket. I try to add a pocket or two

to every quilt.

 

Here's the sun. Yellow ribbon loops. 

Random stitching in the 'sky.'

 

Blue silk channel quiltedd at top.

A cotton piece with a stitched down crochet

piece for texture.

At bottom, upholstery material.

 

 

The upholstery material is lined with blue striped

cotton. It forms an open 'muff' with fleece

on the bottom for a place to put cold hands.

 

A final crazy quilt square with some of the

fabrics in the quilt including red fleece.

My first effort, this quilt is large squares of whatever was at hand, like the never-used tea towel. I did buy the red fleece, a Santa hat that came with faux leopard trim. I'm still thinking how to use the leopard pompom from the hat in another quilt along with the rest of the fur.