Doll quilt top

 Good day, and welcome to my somewhat neglected blog.  I have been busy in my day job and haven't had time to do much sewing or quilting.  But i have a little top to share today.

I have signed up for the doll quilt exchange on Lori's Humble Quilts blog (The sign ups are closed now.)  In this you make a doll quilt that looks as though it has time traveled from the past, and send it out.  Another person makes a doll quilt for you.  So reproduction fabrics it is, and I have plenty of those.

I had in mind using leftovers from one of my recent projects, and I searched my disorganized sewing area.  I found only a few squares - much less leftovers than I thought.  But I did find a box of one inch strips left over from a Courthouse Steps quilt I made a long time ago:

Yes, one inch strips, finishing at 0.5 inches.  I also found 2 leftover blocks from that project, and the beginnings of two more blocks.  So I finished the two partial blocks, and now have a little top:

That will finish at about 15.5 inches square.  My hand quilting skills are not what they used to be, so I think machine quilting and machine binding for this little top.  I am ahead of the game - deadline for sending is early May.

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Log Cabin quilt top

Well, the 1940's retro pattern quilt project, mentioned in my last post, is not ready for its reveal.
Here is a top I finished to get it out of the way of the retro project.

Log cabin Courthouse steps blocks, logs finishing at 3/4 inch I believe.  I squared the blocks (a long tedious process) and began setting them together.  Oh no, some were not the same size!  A few were a little large, or a little small.  I guess I waver a bit in my seam allowance.  I matched them as best I could.  Some of the outer logs may be a little narrower than 3/4 inch - but it doesn't really show.

Close to single bed size, a little narrow.  This is an older UFO (Unfinished object) and I found 99 blocks.  Well that must be a 9 by 11 setting then. (No notes with the blocks, of course!)

A close up of the fabrics used.  I had scraps and short fat quarters I wanted to use up.  The red fabric in the center is left over from backing to a quilt.  The bright blue is left over from a border used in a previous quilt.

No borders yet on this top.  Nothing I have appeals to me, and I think I may leave it as it is.

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Why don't I like this quilt top?

There's really nothing technically wrong with it, but something is missing for me (no, not the border!)

Though a border would help.
The logs finish at 1/2 inches wide.

My analysis: 1. too many 'busy' fabrics for logs of this size. 2. too much 'light' - I like log cabin quilts with dark predominant. 3. maybe I'm not used to looking at the courthouse steps arrangement - this is the first one I have made.  4. It needs a border.

It's summer and I have more time, so I am trying again.  This time the logs will finish at 3/4 inches.  There is more of a mix of colors, and I've switched positions of the dark and light fabrics so the dark will predominate.  We'll see!

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