(edited  – 11/20/08)

last december our wednesday daystitchers group purchased baby dolls and made a quilt for each one.  then we brought them down to kare-11’s 6 pm broadcast and donated them during the Toys for Tots drive.  here is a wonderfully blurry picture of me and a couple from our group with Sven, our weatherman.

We are set up with channel 11 to repeat our dolls with quilts donation again this year.  i had already purchased my baby doll, who’s an adorable cabbage patch preemie.  a little doll quilt is no big deal under normal circumstances — however, with a broken wrist???  i thought i better start now, especially since i asked friends who don’t sew to purchase a baby doll and i would make quilts for as many dolls as i get,  so last night i set out to quilt…

okay, 1st problem.  i can’t stabilize the ruler to rotary cut.  hmmm.  ds1 is home.  would he be game to learn how?  sure he would.  what a guy!

 (i promise to post a better picture of dave in the future.)  so we did a variation of Mary’s heartstrings pattern, so dave could cut the “strings” whatever width he wanted.  okay, a disclaimer.  i am working one handed.  everything is awkward and different.  so with that said, here is the unquilted top on the “baby”.

Doesn’t she look cute?  i think our next “doll” will be a teddy bear suitable for either a boy or girl. 

Sue

sue