doll quilts....

Last year I made a ton of 9-patch blocks from old sheets. I am making them into doll quilts this summer. They are for donation to a new program Karen has learned about.

She talks about it (here) and you can see her quilt too.

Because they are sheets, they don't like to stay flat....even after you steam press the crap out of them.

That made them rather hard to quilt.

(for me anyway)

I tried diagonal on the first one, and just wavy lines along the seams on the last two.

That seemed to go okay.

I did one more. 

Last spring I got a huge tub of sample shirts and fabrics. Some of it just seemed gross to me. I didn't see anything wonderful in it at all.

Kristi, who gave it to me said,

"go though it and pitch what you don't want"

It had been given to her by someone else.

I cut off sleeves and backs.

There was also a small packet of decorator fabrics.

I combined the decorator fabric with the stripes from the shirts, and free pieced hearts, 

this is what I came up with.....

It is about 20 x22 inches. I am thinking that I will give it to Kristi's little girl. I am sure it will shock her to see what came out of the box. It shocked me! 

We spent 2 days down at ISU, in Ames. 

That would be Iowa State University, home of the Cyclones.

NOT the University of Iowa, home of the Hawkeyes.

I easily confuse the two.

(I am a Minnesota girl, a Gopher!)

Anyway.....

Crispy will be attending ISU this fall. We spent two days walking around the campus.

Miles and miles of walking. 

Okay, we did some geocaching on the campus and that added to the total of miles.

Crispy's dorm room is the window right above his head.

We looked in the windows of the room right below it. Nice corner room, with two windows.

He is pretty sure he will love it at ISU.