I never tire of Brown and Blue

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 early Log Cabin square, added a frame of soft blue, and bound and backed it with a deeper blue green. Whether hooking, quilting or dressing a doll, the play of several fabrics well chosen is always greater than the sum of them individually. A quilter's play of fabric bit against bit is a never ending game, like endless hands of solitaire to a card player. The results are ever changing, ever intriguing. My friend for 40 some odd years, Linda B. and I used to sit on the floor and play with fabrics like two little girls playing a game of jacks. Edyth in Sunny Texas

Lion hooked with Brown and Blue

Here is my pattern called Weaver's Lion, which I hooked for a pillow top a year or so back. A sweet friend Martha carried it home and added the braid she made, and then worked the whole thing into a great pillow. It does not really stay on the porch as shown in these pictures, it stays on a little sofa in my bed room, covered in a coverlet print of indigo and ecru. Thank you Martha! Edyth

Doll Party On Thursday the 8th

I had some women friends in to play dolls and paint doll hair. Just a fabulous day I will never forget. We staged a doll show in the dining room with the two themes. One of the ladies, from our Maida group, Elaine has darling triplet youngsters which she home schools and is doing such a grand job with. They were here, but stayed put in the living room to let us old gals play. The subject of the painting was my rope like curls.

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Doll Quilts and Doll Making

The stars of the show on one table were some thirty odd doll size quilts made by Elaine's mother and a few old ones Penny and I had, and on the other table a few examples of dolls from Penny and me, plus an amazing doll family made by Elaine!