Birdie Blanket for Quill Girl #2

Posted by Mirm in Miriam, Sewing

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Maya has a favorite blanket, lovingly known as "Polka Dot," that she has had since birth. She still sleeps with it at age 4. It was time to make a blanket for Little Sister to have for her arrival day.
I loved this little birdie pattern, and thought it would be perfect for our little Quill girl-to-be. This was the first time for me working with fleece and the super sweet satin edging. See below for the step-by-step process.

Cut out your fabric to desired size, place wrong-sides facing each other. Pin all sides.

Sew all 4 sides at about 1/4 inch. Then stitch again about 3/4 inches from edge.

This is what it should look like once you are done stitching.


Here comes the tricky part...adding the trim. Open up the satin edge, fold over 1 inch from the end, and iron.
Tuck the edge of fleece in little front or back pocket made by fold of trim.

Pin the trim on, keeping the fleece tucked in as close to the trim center as you can.
Sew trim on, all the way to the next corner.

When you come to your first corner...you need to form a mitered corner.
Open up the satin trim,to turn the corner. A diagonal is formed when you do this, press lightly and pin.
Pin the rest of trim to upcoming side of blanket.
(Don't forget to miter the corner on the back side as well, being careful to make sure the diagonals match up)

Your corner should look like this, before you stitch.
Begin stitching at the outer corner, up the diagonal, and then up the side of the blanket, to the next corner. Repeat.
Catching top and bottom edges of trim can be tricky, so check your work.
See finished product above.

PS: I could have made another blanket, in the time that it took me to upload this post. What...what?

Heart Felt Toons

Posted by Quillen in Cartoons, Felt, Jason, Miriam

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Ok, the title is extremely cheesy...but here are some characters I came up with recently while drawing w/ Maya. Then Mirm got the craft-bug and made felt versions of them to put on some kids clothing.

Hello World!

Posted by Quillen in Jason, Maya, Miriam

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I know, I know...not another blog. That's right, the Quillen's have decided to join the other 133 million blogs floating around in the ever-expanding blogosphere. With an estimated 900,000 blog posts being puplished in a 24 hour period (look at me throwing around the tech numbers), we figured why not! Actually, we wanted a way to share our creations with friends and family while also keeping a personal journal/record. Therefore, a blog seemed like the logical thing to do.

So, from time to time, hopefully at least once a week, we'll be posting images of creative stuff we like do, whether it be a drawing of Maya's, an outfit Mirm sewed, something I sketched, a food recipe we love, some home renovation we completed...you get the picture. Pretty much anything that ends up coming from the right side of our brains...we'll most likely post.