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!
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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.
I LOVE your potholders! The colors are wonderful! I like the random placement of color too!
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.
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?
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?)
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?
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!
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!
Hey, Jen - Those coil bowls have always intrigued me, too!
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