"Millie's Dresses" - another top started

I know. I wasn’t going to do this. I really have started on several scrappy quilts lately.

But I decided to give one of these dresses a try. I brought the pattern back with me.

So I did.

 

And I fell in love with the finished product.

 

I used “shabby” as the background fabric. Rachael has several bundles that use it.

 

So, naturally, I couldn’t stop.

The pattern calls for 16 dresses, so I just went ahead and made the 16. I know. I’m a mess, right?

With each of the dresses, I chose a floral - except for the one - the middle left dress made of a sort of round mosaic designs. I then chose the collar/belt from among the colors in the print itself.

I was going to not work on any more Lori Holt patterns for a while. I’ll admit - I really have begun working on my own things and have several more designed. But I’m making queen sized quilts, so they take longer, naturally. ::)

So, while they are going on the back burner, I need to show you something, right?

I did finish all 16 dresses needed for the quilt. However, there is a border that is probably just as much work as the main blocks, so I will get to work on those blocks - but when I’m not doing other things. It “feels like” the fun part of this is finished, so I will probably work more slowly on the rest of the quilt. We’ll see.

Sometimes I get carried away and just keep on going and manage to finish up something much faster than I thought.

We had these patterns in stock, but right now I can’t find them on the website. If anyone is interested in them for the future, you could just us know and we could get them back in stock. (’d just ask Rachael to order them.)

In the meantime, this is just the next quilt I’ve got “in the works”.

We are getting ready for a VBS of sorts for the next 5 Saturdays. I do have some responsibilites in each week, so there’s that. It will affect some of my sewing time. Maybe not too much, however. I find when I have more to do (within reason), I work harder at other times. This is how it is in Poland. When in Florida I was just too tired to try to do that much.

Thanks once again so much for coming along with me on this journey.

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!



Becky Petersen3 Comments