Doll quilt ready for swapping

 Every Spring, Lori de Jarnatt runs a Doll quilt swap on her blog, Humble Quilts.  I have participated for several years, and I signed up again.  I haven't yet been assigned an exchange partner, but I was excited to get going.

I have in my mini quilt collection this older doll quilt.

14 by 22 inches, a range of fabrics, the youngest being perhaps from the 1930's.

The back:

Ties hold the front and the back together.  Patches are sewn by hand, but the binding was sewn by machine onto the front, then hand sewn on the back.  In a small hole on the front I can see that there is no batting, except for what looks like a layer of coarse woven fabric, like cheesecloth.

You may have to expand the photo to see this.

I decided to reproduce this quilt, but in reproduction navy blue and shirting fabric, imitating fabrics from the mid 1800's.  I measured the size of the fabric rectangles and got going.

I quilted in the ditch and bound in a light shirting fabric.  A close-up:

I will send this out early, before our big trip to Europe.

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Next Spring Fling block

Spring Fling blocks are due in Mid-June and I am trying to actually get done ahead of time. This one is K-4, Thea's Turn. The idea is to make 5 blocks all alike, in 30's reproduction fabrics. then exchange at a central location (the swap mom's place), get 5 different blocks back.

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Spring Fling I

Here are two of the blocks I am making for the Spring Fling exchange. My poor sewing machine is at the repair man's. I am using another machine where I just can't get the tension right. My old machine may be a 20 year old Kenmore but at least I know its quirks. I miss it. these two I am keeping. With the off tension I don't feel right exchanging them.
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