I love joining in with Wild Olive’s seasonal stitching clubs. I like to share my progress too but it seems that I often forget! Last summer I took part in Wild Olive’s Summer Stitching Club. You get sent a pattern each week and it builds into a cute little doll quilt or cushion cover using English Paper Piecing and hexagons – my two favourite things. This was the first I took part in and to be honest I found it hard to set aside the time but had a big push and made the bulk of it over one weekend.
It came together really quickly in the end. Over a couple of evenings I hand quilted inside the yellow hexagons. The word quilting makes me shudder but this was simple and effective for such a small piece of work.
To be honest I was quite scared of finishing it which was probably why I was staring at it for so long. However, one night I bit the bullet. First of all I trimmed the edges to make the sides even. It felt totally wrong to cut through my stitches!
Then I made some binding to co-ordinate with the orange hexagons. I stitched it on by hand and this was the only part of the instructions I didn’t follow. Binding scares me more than anything so I wanted to do it the way I knew and had done before.
It only took a couple of hours to complete the final stages and I love the finished doll quilt, it’s a great addition to my growing doll quilt collection. It measures 30x42cm so is the perfect size for one of my daughter’s doll beds.
This looks great, love the summery stitched motifs.
Thanks, they were really fun to stitch.