Vintage Style Inked Baby Quilt

 Using old ink transfers from Aunt Martha's and then tinting the fabric with ink pens, I reproduced a look from the 50's I have always liked. The quilt was then machine stippled and washed to crinkle. Looks 50 years old, doesn't it? 

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Baby Bunnies Tinted Linens Quilt

Several years ago I made the bunny blocks, using an iron on design published by Aunt Martha's
(https://colonialpatterns.com/)  The motifs are bunnies doing housework and chores.  I then used inktense pencils, watercolor pencils that you draw with dry, then use a brush to wet them and they become permanent ink watercolor!  Then they went in a bag and I forgot about them.  For some time.  Years.....

A year or a few ago I found them and paired them with some pastel Easter fabrics.  Back into a bag they went.  For another year.  Finally I pulled them out and decided to make some Geese Blocks with white centers, and an arrangement that was pleasing.  Had a great stripe for the border.  Maybe a year after THAT I quilted it with Nice and Soft Cotton Batting in a dense 2" grid.  It's finally finished!  It found it's home for a child born on Easter! Annie W

Butterflies Quilt

My cousin Tary was a unique man, sweet, loving, kind. We lost him way too young.

The butterflies are batiks, the sky is a gently painted light blue on muslin. The quilt will reside with my cousin Patty.

Fly back home,  on newly formed wings.  I miss you.

AYOQ: Sea Creatures and Numbers Quilt

The 6-month baby quilt for my Grandson is June, and here in San Diego that means beaches and sail boats.  In the fall of 2015, his home was destroyed by a fire, and in it was the original June quilt.  It was my favorite of the yearly quilts, with sailboats and bright colors.

To replace it, I decided on something totally different!  I researched cartoon sea creatures on google, and drew some out on 5" muslin squares, then tinted them with inktense pencils.  Then I water painted them, and they became color fast and permanent. I then alternated with squares from a charm pack themed sea creatures and numbers.  Some of the drawn blocks included numbers and counting circles.

This was a real fun replacement quilt to make to photograph Zeke on his 18 month portrait.

Birthday for a Momma

What mother doesn't delight in little reminders of their precious children?  So I got my grandkids to make me some handprints (or in the case of the new baby footprints!) on muslin squares.  Then I set them in a bright happy collection of charms and bordered it all with some Happy Birthday Cakes.

Happy 34th birthday to Amber. 

Water Painted Fishies

My 6 year old grand-daughter wanted to do a craft on a busy evening.  So I drew some fish on a piece of blue dyed muslin, gave her the colored pencils, a few paint brushes and a cup of water.  The delightful table runner is the product of her work and it looks great in the center of the table!

Flower Pounding and Fabric Painting

This was a fun fun project!  I used regular white muslin for the large blocks, and prepared them by pounding them with geraniums, roses, bougainvilleas, and all sorts of other leaves, grasses and flowers from around my yard.  After they dry and get heat set and washed, they became canvasses for hand drawn and cut stencils (cut from freezer paper) painted with oil based paint sticks.  For a stencil brush I used a toothbrush and brushed the color on in circles. A quilt like this cried for some hand quilting, and the colors suggested bright Mexican colors to m, so I dug into my Mexican Themed scraps for the borders and sashing.

Both flower pounding and the oil sticks technique re learned in a great 6 week class I took at he art museum, taught by Jane LaFazio, (http://www.janelafazio.com) a published quilt artist whose creations are often seen at local and even national quilt exhibits.  

Girls Quilting Day 2013

I LOVE to introduce people to quilting.  Sometimes, it "clicks!" and a new quilter is produced.  So when my friends bring their daughters over (age 3 1/2 and up!) we have a blast bringing out the paints and stamps and creating a first quilt.

The little girls were between 3 1/2 and 5, I had 3 little ones and an 11 year old over. I may have offered too many options for so little time; next time I may do only painting, stamping and sewing buttons. 

The girls were all quite proud of their creations.  I think EMMA was the most intense.......... maybe she will be a quilter some day! 

  

Baby Quilt for Daniel

Helped a friend make a quilt like this quilt several months ago and I really liked it.  So with the leftover fabrics I made the same one.  The designs are painted with Inktense Water Color Inks.  They go on like a colored pencil.  When wet with the brush they act like watercolor, but after drying they are ink and permanent. 
It is for a special newborn baby boy, whose parents have loved him already for several years.

Sprout's Little Kitties

Sprout gave me a trio of scraps she wasn't particularly attracted to.   One had some little kitties jumping around and there was some nice contrast to one of the pieces. 
I had purchased some acrylic stamp and those rubber combs for making designs on stamps, so I went to work for a small wall quilt for my "Kitty Bathroom."

4 Little Quilts

This was a Facebook challenge; I post an invitation that I will make "something" for the first 4 people who respond, and in turn THEY must post the same invite.  meanwhile the person I reposted from made me a gift.

For these tiny treats I flower pounded the white muslin then dripped watered down acrylic paints on them. I used stamps to stamp flower designs, then water-color ink pencils to color them in.  Scraps from other projects; buttons, and some hand quilting completed each design.  They are about the size of a place mat.

Hawaiian Baby Fish

My best friend Sprout bought me a package of 4" Hawaiian cotton squares she found in the back of  a small drug store in Hawaii.  They were obviously cut from someone's scraps, tied with a ribbon.  Years later a friend of ours had her first baby.  She had married her husband in Hawaii, o it seemed a perfect pairing!  I dyed white muslin light blue with acrylic paint, then used rubber fish stamps in acrylic paints to stamp sea creatures on the plain blocks.  They alternate with 4-patches for this sweet baby quilt!

Baby Animals

When a friend asked me to help her make a quilt for an adoptee baby boy she had cared for, but confessed her sewing skills were suspect, I asked "can you color?"  Surprised, she said sure.  So, we searched google images for Baby Animal Cartoons, traced them onto lightly blue dyed muslin.  Colored with the inktense colored pencils (go on like colored pencils; add water with a brush and the inks become vibrant and color fast.) and made a simple setting with a collection of fat eights.  She was delighted!

Baby Animals

I wanted o experiment with Inktense Pencils on this baby quilt.  I used an Aunt martha iron-on embroidery pattern which I traced with permanent Sharpie markers.  Then I colored them in with inktense pencils.  These colored pencils when wet with the paintbrush convert to a water-fast ink.  Heat set by ironing, I then set them simply into a scraps from he sewing room floor quilt and stpiile-quilted then washed to shrink.  The colors remained.  I distressed it lightly with some coffe stains, to make it appear to be from the 60's.