Rabbits
I’ve been trying to design a new baby quilt for a while now.
This turns out to be much harder than it sounds. How to do pure and innocent without being sickly sweet and twee?
I was about to give up when I suddenly had the idea of using vintage embroidered tablecloths as a base.
The design came together by itself after that. I love it when that happens.
So, I’m imagining someone appliqueing little rabbits to a tablecloth hand embroidered by their grandmother and then wrapping a precious new member of the family up in it.
Wouldn’t that be nice?
The rabbit is one of my jointed applique templates and the pattern will be available in my shop soon.
Thursday, June 18th, 2009 at 9:04 am
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June 18th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
it looks great!!! I wish, I had your skills ..
ciao ciao Christa
June 18th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
aah, that is so lovely.
x
June 18th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
always love how your animals dance!
June 20th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
So lovely and so precious. I would have to improvise, as I don’t have any old table clothes. My grandma’s used table mats. Oh well, a visit to the Goodwill is in order.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Wow , it turned out really well .
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:27 pm
This gorgeous. I am sure anybody would treasure a piece like this.
July 9th, 2009 at 7:28 am
It’s lovely to look at and a great idea. I still have stacks of my grandmother’s handembroydered tablecloths and have been thinking about making them into a quilt for a long time. But I had never thought of it in quite this manner.