~about a doll quilt, a mug rug and good etiquette~

My little monster has been quite ill over the weekend. We've been housebound since friday and I can tell you the walls are closing in one me! The silver lining of spending all my time between these four walls is of course sewing! I finished my mini quilt for the Doll Quilt Swap. Here it is all bound and quilted, still in need of a label and a name perhaps? Suggestions are welcome!

I've grown to love this little quilt. It's been quite a challenge to come up with something I hope my partner will like. Judging from the extensive stalking I have done she has quite different tastes from mine. But she, like most of us in the swap, would like for her partner to make something they love. So I tried to do both. A little bit of my likes combined with some things I think she likes...lets hope I didn't get it wrong!
I ended up making something quite different from  my initial idea but I still really wanted to execute the 'ceci n'est pas un coq' quilt. So I made this mug rug. It's pathetic if you're the one laughing hardest at your own joke, I know! But it makes me laugh everytime I see it.

Something completely different; Kat is hosting a series of posts by different guest bloggers Good Etiquette for the Modern Blogger  Today's day two so there's only one day's worth of cathing up, it's very interesting to read!

{I Love You More than Rock & Roll}

Happy Valentines Day! 

x Leila

You don't want to miss this!

One of my online friends Lynne has her very first Moda Bakeshop tutorial up today!!! It's really exciting, and supercool news of course :-) She has been teasing us for weeks with sneaky peeks and hints and now it's finally here:
Hexagon Park Hexagons and Sherbet Pips....sigh.


Isn't it beautiful?! Don't just take my word for it but head on over there
and show one of the coolest people in blogtopia some love.
And then head on over to Lynne's for a chance to win yourself some Pips!!

Congratulations Lynne!
x Leila

{Doll Quilt Swap} Progress

Finally I made a start on my partners doll quilt. It took me a while to integrate my partners likes with my own. Determined as I was not to do another black bird I made a few starts on other ideas but ended up not liking them at all! So I caved and went with the bird.

Here's the start with the background fused and stitched as it was yesterday.

Today I made the kite and the branch and some other details and played around with them a bit. None of them are fused yet so I can move it all around and see what looks best. Which one do you like best? I'm not sure. I quite like the first one because it brings together all the greens, but I think my partner may like some more colour. Perhaps I should add some flowers in the grass, either fused applique or embroidery.. I have the same doubts about the kite, I personally love the newspaper fabric but maybe my partner would prefer a shiny red or pink kite instead?
Decisions, decisions ha ha!

I would love to hear what you would add {or remove!}

x Leila

~Love~

Every quilt  a mother makes for her baby is special, some are just a little more special than others. Kendra is awaiting the arrival of her adoptive daughter from China, together with her husband and three older brothers. You just know this little girl is going to be loved to bits!! {and probably spoiled rotten too lol!}
She asked us to send her a 5" charm of girly fabric infused with a good wish or a prayer for her to turn into a 100 wishes charm quilt. Now isn't that just the most wonderful idea?! I can't wait to see pictures of her little girl all snuggled up under her 100 wishes quilt :-) It makes me feel all sentimental that I got to contribute one wish together with quilters from all over the world to welcome this child into the world.

A princess for a princess, it seems only fitting ;-) I bet Kendra is going to have a blast ,after sewing for all these men in her life, she finally gets to overload on pink now!
 
x Leila