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maandag 5 december 2011

Handmade Christmas presents

These Christmas presents are all handmade in your kitchen. Who would not like to receive these foodie-gifts.........? You can find the recipese here.

vrijdag 2 december 2011

Do you want some inspiration for making a Christmas quilt or table runner.
I am sure you can find it here. Danielle is hosting a Christmas quilt show, there are already about 90 blogs that participate.

What do you think of this one? She made this quilt.

You can find this one here.

And the last one, I think this is my favorite, maybe in red!!!!

donderdag 1 december 2011

Antique doll quilts

Last weeks I bought some antique/vintage doll quilts. I did not want to pay the expensive so they are not perfect at all. But each of them had something that touched me, in someway or another.
They were all bought in the United States and came from estate sales.

I don't know how old this doll quilt is.... There is a backing but no binding, all done by hand. The pattern is something between a one-patch and a crazy quilt. I love the fabric choice and the primitive impression of the quilt. The fabric is coton, flanel and satin.

I bought this embroidery doll quilt because the embroidered images are a strange combinations, most embroidered quilts have one theme : nursery rhymes, animals or Suebonnet Sue's.

This one is a combination of several; two animals , two Suebonnet's and two images of traditional Dutch

people.

I was touched by this traditional Dutch farmer's wife with tulips in her hands. Someone in the States embroidered this. Did she have Dutch grandparents or was she Dutch herself?

To be continued....

maandag 28 november 2011

My Suebonnet Sue quilt

This morning I finished this small quilt. Hand pieced and hand quilted. I love the bright colors.

I found the pattern in this book.

zondag 27 november 2011

Suebonnet Sue, do you know here?

This picture and the information about Suebonnet Sue was found on this blog.

Whether you know the pattern as the Sunbonnet Sue, or the Dutch doll, Bonnie Bonnet, or as the Sun Bonnet Babies....she's been made into quilts, painted on nursery walls, appliqued onto clothing and goes back to our grandmother's or even great-grandmother's time

Many of the illustrators of the late 1800's and the early 20th century drew playful children with big hats or bonnets, but only a few are recognized as being Sue's earliest illustrators. The first is Kate (Catherine)Greenaway (1846-1901) who as a British book editor who often drew pictures of children, especially sweet girls in bonnets on her greeting cards. Many of her designs were used on the patches of fine Victorian crazy quilts or appeared in early editions ofSmithsonian magazine. These were probably Sue's very first appearance in quilts.

But it is another illustrator, Bertha Corbett Melcher, who is officially regarded as the "Mother of Sunbonnet Babies." Bertha illustrated children's Primer books in the early 1900's and her books depicted girls with their faces hidden by their bonnets. Her drawings caught the eye of a Primer illustrator Eulalie Osgood Grover, and the two women began a collaboration what would last for many year, through many different Primer books.

Browsing on the web you can find so many fabulous Suebonnet's, there is even a Sunbonnet Sue blog!