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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Downhill Skiing and Making Potholders

Inspired to try to use up some of the leftovers from the unwanted wall hanging I blogged about yesterday, I made a couple of potholders while watching the Olympics on TV last night.

I've always enjoyed the Winter Olympics more than those that take place in the summer. The men's downhill skiing last night enthralled me as I stitched away. (Once I commented to a good friend, "In my next life, I'm going to be an Olympic downhill skier." She gave me a quizzical look with her head tilted to one side and said, "But . . . you're not even a good downhill skier now." I don't know why she had to look at it so logically. Ya gotta love true friends for telling it like it is.)

I didn't use a traditional block pattern for these . . .

. . . I just threw things together for both sides.

As for the wall quilt I talked about yesterday that I was going to dump, one of my quilting blog buddies, Beth of Love Laugh Quilt, gave me the inspiration to make it into a doll quilt. The wall hanging is only about 15-1/2" x 16-1/2" so I think I'll add a wider border top and bottom to give it better proportions and finish it up as a doll quilt to give at Easter time to a very special little toddler.

I feel much, much better about that than dumping it. Best of all, it will be out of my UFO box!

9 comments:

wishes, true and kind said...

Cute pot holders. I love playing around with little bits and pieces like that, but I haven't done it in awhile. Beth had a great idea to rescue your UFO and turn it into a smaller quilt. It will make a toddler very happy.

beth said...

I LOVE your potholders! The colors are wonderful! I like the random placement of color too!

Mama Pea Quilts said...

Hi, Joan - I've gotta admit most of my scraps have been going into the scrap box lately. But it was fun to use these leftovers in the potholders.

Hey, Beth - Thanks! And thanks again for inspiring me to make the wall hanging into a little doll quilt.

Jenyfer Matthews said...

Those are too nice to use!

And however did you make them while you watched TV? Or do you have a TV in your studio?

Mama Pea Quilts said...

Hi, Jen - I do have a very small, very old TV in my quilt studio. It works most of the time. Husband keeps asking me if I wouldn't like a new one that actually worked all of the time, but I hate change so keep using what I have. (Do I need psychiatric help?)

Jenyfer Matthews said...

I am *almost* tempted to get out my scrap box and start sewing tiny triangles into squares and make...something. Because I don't have enough other stuff going on right now, right?

Mama Pea Quilts said...

Hey, Jen - Yup. That's just what you need to do . . . go play in your scrap box! Well, you know what they say . . . busy people get the most done in a day's time. :o) And you have been so busy that maybe you really need some quilting therapy!

Jenyfer Matthews said...

I was planning to donate the shoebox of tiny triangles and other bits to the school for their art classes! But I'm keeping the strips because one day I WILL get to making those coil bowls!

Mama Pea Quilts said...

Hey, Jen - Those coil bowls have always intrigued me, too!