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Thread # 1 & Thread #2 have been closed so I've started a new thread for the Doll Quilt Project. I will just continuing posting the pictures & for those of you who don't know about this project, you can look back on one of the earlier threads.


Volunteers:
= doll quilt(s) received

Alabama - SeeingStars
Alaska - nancyc20
Arizona - wiley
Arkansas - NICUnurse
California - City/Sandie
Colorado - ekbuckeye
Connecticut - quiltlady928
Connecticut Seniors - sposored by quiltlady928 -
Delaware - May Baby
Florida - ~~Tx~~Wildflower
Georgia - wannaquilt2
Hawaii - Malou
Idaho - Kay-lin
Illinois - DJBrown
Indiana - lionpride
Iowa - quiltin'nickles
Kansas - coffee/tea or me
Kentucky - rondiquilts
Louisiana - Shawkl
Maine - jeepdarla
Maryland - AngelaC
Massachusetts - ELY/SYSSY
Michigan - TcMay
Minnesota - RockinBobbin
Mississippi - Chlynn1129
Missouri - goldiesmom
Montana - STinMT
Nebraska - patty j
Nevada - SisterSue
New Hampshire - Quiltnanny
New Jersey - Turtle9
New Mexico - Happy Erm
New York - longjohn
North Carolina - Jane_Kiwi
North Dakota - alexemmarose
Ohio - Aliquilt
Oklahoma -Marion2
Oregon - BlueSkies7
Pennsylvania - Micell1538(cannot send due to personal issues)
Puerto Rico - ELY/SYSSY
Rhode Island - Crazy'boutquilts
South Carolina - Kim-Strut526
South Dakota - chanlady22
Tennessee - Kentucky_Sunshine(to send later in year)
Texas - nlk
U.S. Virgin Islands - KaribbeanQuilter
Utah - PWife
Vermont - Timetosew
Virginia - Fayejean
Washington - pegsami
West Virginia - applebetty
Wisconsin - jayardi
Wyoming - wenonah

Angie in NH -
Patti (a friend of Kim-Struts) - x 30

These two quilts came in from CitySandie (California) today & the work on them is beautiful. The pink one on th right has fabric with hearts all over it & the back is black with pink & red hearts. The back is sparkling with glittzie fabric as well as some of the fabrics on the front. Those sparkles sure do give it a nice look. The one on the right is made from absolutely awesome fabrics & colors. Check out Sandie's great braid pattern. Sandie, you did a fantastic job on the quilt with the wrap around binding.

See those little bows between the two quilts? Sandie sent a whole handful of those for me to use. Now those will be great for embellishments. Thank you Sandie for your help with the project & your thoughtfulness.

I received an e-mail from Deb today & she wanted to thank everyone for such cute quilts. She is posting them on her Flickr account here.

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Nik you are alwasy so cheery and upbeat and give such wonderful and colorful descriptions of the quilts.. thank you ... I know there will be a bunch of little girls getting a bit thrill come christmas! I sent you a pm = dolls?

Sandie: That braid is a knockout!!!

thanks Nancy - you would not believe how easy and fun it is with that F&P ruler featured on the show awhile back..one of those I HAVE to try it things.

There are a few more on the way!!! I will bring them to the post office tomorrow morning. I had sewed them together from my stash and the ladies in my quilting/sewing class at the Senior Center tied them this morning.
Made with love from Connecticut's Seniors!

I soooo looking forward to receive the quilts from the ladies in your class at the Senior Center. It sounds like they enjoyed making them.

WOW All the doll quilts are wonderful. Sorry I missed this. What a wonderful bunch of ladies we have on the board.
Hugs to all. Angie in NH

Hi Angie - You don't have to miss it - really - if you have some things to use up in a cute little project these are the perfect answer.
As you can see from the pics posted - no 2 are alike! Certainly easy. Oh I hope that didn't sound pushy, I only meant to include you if you were inclined.

great..would love to help. what are the dimentions

never mind...found them on thread #1 What size do you need.
Angie

Nicki
I almost forgot to take a picture.
They will be on the way today.
Jeanne

Angie, they need both sizes so you take your pick & make what size you want. I think the 12" x 18" are probably used for the strollers & the 14" x 18" are probably for the doll beds. (this is just a guess on my part). They don't have to be exact dimensions. I will p.m. you with my address. I'm collecting them all here & will mail them off to Debbie when I get them all. Thank you so much for joining in on this project.

This brings me to mention (as City/Sandie stated), even if you didn't sign up on the original thread doesn't mean that you can't be a wonderful part of this. ANYONE & EVERYONE can join in & make doll quilts for the children. Just let me know & I'll get my address to you. This is a fun project & I certainly didn't mean to leave anyone out. Just because all 50 states were represented didn't mean that we should stop there. There is plenty of time for more quilters to sign up.

Jeanne, the quilts came from the Connecticut Seniors today & they are all sooooo very, very lovely. Please be sure to thank them personally for me & let them know how much I appreciate their participation in this project.

Each one is hand tied & all of them are so colorful. One is a string quilt with such pretty fabrics. One is a Winnie the Pooh panel that is so cute with all of Winnie's friends. There's one with pretty red fabric with stars all over it & some of the stars are outlined in that glitter. That quilt has threee little squares in the center with darling animals in little boats....so cute. The last one is a stripy quilt made of great colors. It has some of the glitzie star fabric in it also. Each one is signed on the back with "Made with Love from Connecticut's Seniors". Thank you, thank you, thank you for the quilts.

Hmmmm...I just looked at mine on the Flicker Account and realized it's 2 rows short!!! Oh my gooodness. The one I just made looked so long...but I measured it and it's right! Good thing I'm making more, so that at least one of them will be the right size!

Mine is still coming from Missouri.

Wanda

Oh Nancy, the one you sent is just fine! I bet it's perfect for a stroller. Don't you fret over the size!

Wanda, I'll be watching for it in the mail.

Happy Erm's little New Mexico quilt came in today & it's just lovely. It's a combination of 9 patches & pretty SunbonnetSue blocks. The border & back are New Mexico themed fabric with kopeli figures on it. The label says "The Land of Enghantment New Mexico" with the New Mexico State Flag.

Thank you Erma for being a part of this fun project.

I put 2 quilts in the mail this afternoon!

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I'll be watching for them, Angela. Thank you!

finished 2. One is actually the correct size!!! making more before I send. I love this.

I hvae 2 in the works also .. it'sjust so darn fun .. but am finishing a wedding quilt to get into the mail - hopefully tomorrow .. it's only 3 hours away but so often the mule train seems to stop to water and them nap and then munch and then, well, HAY, too late to travel - those freeways get busy, and the 40 across the desert at night is downright DARK and lonely.
But I ALWAYS have time to check in here

i saw mine in the photo album! they are all just so dang cute!

You gals are sure ambitious & I'm loving every minute of it. Just keep doing what you like to do...

Nancy, any size i the correct size! You go girl!

Sandie, you are the busiest little bee on the block! Where do you get all that energy?

Kim, I'm keeping Debbie up to date as I receive the quilts so she can post on Flickr. I could not figure out how to post from my end so she graciously is doing that for us.

Well take a look at what was dropped off at my house today.

These two came from AngelaC from that great state of Maryland. The littl Teddy Bear quilt is made with a panel & don't they just look like they are ready for a hug? Angela quilted around the bears & added those sweet border on the top & bottom. What beautiful workmanship on these. She did the wrap around border.

The other one is so pretty in it's soft colors with beautiful butterfly fabric on the back. If you look closely you can see a new technique to me. She took the front yellow border & cut it larger than the quilt & wrapped it to the BACK & stitched it down for the binding. How clever is that? I'm learing so many things from all these quilts.
Thank you, Angela for such a well done job on these two quilts. The children are going to love them.

This is the other package that came today & it is from Malou who made this quilt representing Hawaii. It's made from such pretty 30's replica fabrics & has pretty star decorative stitching surrounding each piece. It has precious little bunny fabric on the back. This is really a sweet, sweet quilt.
Thank you Malou for being a part of doll quilt project!!

Now for the BIG QUESTION!!! Does anyone recognize the contents of this little special box? Well.....it just happens to be some of Malou's very, very famous English Butter Toffee!! WOW!!! She made me a batch as a little treat & I'm just blown away by this gift for me.
Malou, I've seen so many post on this message board about this wonderful toffee & dreamed o someday having some. You can' imagine how surprised & happy I was when I opened that little box & saw it. I love butter toffee & have eaten a lot in my lifetime & I have to say this the by far the best I've ever had! Thank you so very, very much for this sweet surprise.

ETA: Notice that one piece is missing. I gobbled it up before I took the picture.

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Beautiful little quilts...Nicki...are you still licking your lips...I can see your smile as your opened that treat...so cool.

Yum that toffee sure does look good.
ETA: I forgot to say that these little quilts sure are cute and I'm glad Sue and I were a part of it. Thanks for doing it Nicki. Pat

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I recognize that box!

Rondi

Oh how funny! I didn't know the toffee was "famous"! I'm glad you liked the treat tucked in with the quilt.
I'm loving each of the little quilts we've seen! Each so individual and sweet.
Oh, BTW... if you're going to the COF in Branson you'll get some of that "famous" toffee from me!!

HOLY CRIMINEY - IF FOR NO OTHER REASON I WILL BE IN BRANSON ... HEY YOU GUYS ... THAT STUFF ISISFAMOUS. YUMMMMMMMMMM.

I just wanted to let you know that I have sent Debbie 25 of the little quilts that I've received. I decided to go ahead & send some to her a few at a time. I was going t wait & send them to her all at one time but I don't trust the post office to get them to her & didn't want to take a chance of loosing them ALL in one box! She got them today & is so thrilled with the workmanship & unique quilts that y'all have made. This is her blog where she has posted pictures of a few along with wonderful comments.

The deadline isn't until July 1 but I wanted to give you a little update on what I have done. I just picked out some randomly to make the first journey to her.

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ttt for you week-enders who want to know how things are going. If you scroll down her blog you will see yesterday's post along with today's. She really has a way with words & pictures.

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Nicki // did I forget to tell you another pkg is on the way? 2 little quilts, one is kind of bigger but it's a little panel .. you'll see why I could't whack on it!

thanks for the blog ..

Ah, Sandie...I'll be watching for it. Thanks!

Saturday I received 2 pkgs. in the mail with doll quilts. City/Sandie sent 2 more & PWife sent in 2 representing Utah.

City/Sandie sent in the cutest little S.Sue panel quilt with S.Sue backing. She tied off the little Sue's at each shoulder & stitched between each Sue block w/invisible thread.

Her other quilt is a beautiful, soft floral quilty. She did a decorative stitch all around the center blocks & also to stitch down the wrap around backing.

Thank you Sandie, for all the fun & beautiful quilts that you have sent.

These 2 little quilts that came in from PWife are so cute & so much fun. Bright colors are loved by all children (& many adults...like me!). The smaller of the two quilts is actually a reversible quilt. She used the same fabrics on each side to make it usable both ways. The binding is zig-zaged on & she used a darling decorative stitch across the quilt in 3 places to bind it all together.

The second quilt she made is sooo cute. The little animal strips are all one piece but they look like separate blocks. What a fun & happy quilt. It just made me smile as soon as I saw it. She used the decorative stitching for the quilting on this one & some stitch in the ditch.
The backing is solid yellow.

Thank you so much Vickie! The children are going to love these quilts.

ttt so you could see the new pictures.

Sooo cute.....love the quilts...

CitySandi...I have a panel like the Sue's...I inherited it from a 94 year young quilters stash..I just brought it upstairs to work on this summer...I just love it...

May - that panel was given to me by a quilty friend, with a very long face telling me i didn't know what it cost her to give it up .. "but after all" she says - "it's for a KID". The backing is a dense pattern of tiny little SS's ... so cute.
What are yo going to do with the one you have?

little quilt finished and will be mailed out on Wed. Yea!

I'll be looking for it in the mail next week. Thanks...

I'm going to quilt it and hang on to it for someone very special. I had planned to do that from the moment I saw it but new projects and life got in the way for a while..

Here's the cute quilt I got in the mail Friday from alexemmarose & this quilt represents North Dakota. It's so sweet with it's soft little rose bud fabric. She tied it off & embellished it with a cute bow & ric-rack all around. It has a bright pink backing. Some little girl is really going to be happy to find this quilt at Christmas. Thank you, alexemmarose for a job well done!

Also, here is another report on the project. If you scroll down you will see some of the toys that are being made by the woodworkers & also a picture of the original founder of the toy project. It's nice to see who actually started all of this & doesn't he look like a very, very nice man?

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doesn't he look like a very, very nice man?

He looks like SANTA!!!!

Sandie, did you show your friend the finished quilt? Bet she was so glad that you made something so cute out of her stash--Great job.

Pattyj nice of you to ask I took a big picture of it to show her yesterday at our monthly all day group meeting - and she got sick and left! I had emailed it, but she never reads it and said she probably has over 2000 to go thru ... hahaha like she is really going to even LOOK at those. I'll show her at guild next week.
Wasn't that article Nicki posted a big smile maker? WOW those guys are all over their project! My quiltie buddies are going to get that one in email also.

Here's the latest little quilt that came in from Goldiesmom in Missouri. This is a beautiful little, one piece quilt but it looks like individual, scrappy heart blocks. I don't know where you gals find such fabulous fabric but I sure wish I could shop where you do. This quilt has a soft pink backing & bound in the same fabric. It's going to be loved by a little one. Thank you, Goldiesmom, for taking part in the project. It is greatly appreciated!

OMG! That used to be one of my favorite fabrics back in the early 90's when I was making fabric covered photo albums