Teddy bear quilt, part 5

So, finally here is the grand finally.  Now don't peek to the end, there are just a few more blocks to show you before you get to see the whole quilt.

This first block is cute.  We have two sleeping bears.  Looks like when you put a stuffed bear back on the shelf.  The Bears have the mini bear paw blocks below them.

Just above the sleeping bears you have a bear sitting up and leaning against a pillow.  The pillow has real lace trim.  Above this bear is the mini sail boat blocks.

To go with all the mini sail boat blocks, we have the bear sailor with his cap and stripes.

Lastly, we have a girl sitting amongst the flowers watching a butterfly.  Pretty.

Here comes what you have all been waiting for.......the completed quilt.  Isn't it beautiful.  So much detail.  While I am looking at the entire quilt, I realize that I didn't get a picture of all the different borders.  If you enlarge the picture you can see that all the blocks have there own borders.

The Christmas bear has wreaths along the left, the pj bears have hearts along their left and the rocking horse bears have mini rocking horse blocks on the bottom and right.  Did I mention in a previous post, that all the rocking horses have actual hair for their mains.

I can't get over how much work is involved in the making of this quilt.  The pictures do not do the quilt justice.  The quilt is amazing.

Teddy bear quilt, part 4

We're getting close to the reveal.  Next bear post will do it.  Today we have another row of bears.  These ones are standing around in different outfits.

This first picture shows a girl bear dressed up in a dress, another bear wearing a night cap, and a third bear dressed up in a black suit and red vest.  As you can see this row is bordered top and bottom with small bear paw blocks in various colours.

After the bear in a suit we have another girl bear wearing a simple party dress carrying balloons.  Beside her is a sleepy bear wearing a yellow sleeper, and beside him is a bear wearing overalls with a stripped bandana to match his pant cuffs.

There is the first white bear I recall seeing with a pretty pink bow around her neck.  Next to her is a boy bear wearing nickers with a red tie and matching cap. Do you see his suspenders?

This last part of the row is a cool bear wearing a hat (sorry, not sure the type), and his jacket and pants.  The last bear in the row is a chubby bear wearing overalls.

A lot of bears marching in a row across the quilt  All in different colours and variety of attire.  A lot of details too.  All the tiny pieces would have taken lots of patience.

Teddy bear quilt, part 3

The Bears continue.  There are numerous bears doing different things on this quilt.  As I said before, there is so much going on it was difficult to know we're to start. Your eyes just wanted to keep going to take it all in.

This teddy bear and bunny friends is close to the middle of the quilt. 

There was a row of skating bears first the girl bear being dragged by the boy in overalls.

And another girl bear being lead by a boy bear.  They are all skating in a row.  The girls right hand is holding the boy from the picture above.

Here I kept the best for last in this batch.  We have a bride and groom all decked out in their refineries.  If you can get up close you will see the 3D wedding dress and flowers.  The wedding dress is all done up in lace.  This was very intricate.  I don't think I would have had the patience to handle gathering all the lace and sewing all the 3D flowers in the bouquet and in the hat.  It was stunning in person.

Only a couple more post until the great big reveal!!!  Stay tuned.

Teddy bear quilt, part 2

Back to the Bears, as I said in my earlier post, these bears are so adorable. With lots of intricate work.  This first one is another one of my favourites.  It's a mama bear with her baby bear.

We have a bear going for a balloon ride while, when one of the balloons escapes.  It is not visible yet but the border on the right is a row of small sailing boats.

Here we have a cute girl and guy bear sharing a pair of pajamas.  The classic her the top, him the bottoms. Can you see the tie string on his pajama bottoms.  I like the strips of the fabric too.

Lastly in this block we have a Christmas scene of a bear with a Santa's hat and scarf, beside a Christmas tree.

As you can see, I am not stretching the truth when I say the blocks are gorgeous.  So much detail.  A lot of these pieces are tiny.  It's stunning.

My one and only Mariner's compass

I finished it!  I finished the mariner's compass wall hanging.  This is what I will look like hung on the wall.

This picture is on an the table where it catches the light from the window on an angle, so that you can really see the quilting.  I think it turned out nice.

I did this piece all freehand.  Now all I need to do is put on the binding and the hanging sleeve.

Santa stockings

Yesterday, the kids and I ended up at my Mom's place helping her finish putting her sewing room back together.  Friday, not last week but the week before, we went for dinner and help Mom empty all the large furniture from her sewing room.

Mom spent the following week plugging up the holes, priming, painting and steam cleaning the carpets.  She even managed to get some stuff back in herself.  But what was left was hanging the large cupboards back up.  Not a job for one person.

Yesterday, I called on my brother for help and together we put all the cupboards back up, however in a different location.  Now Mom can spend this coming week putting her sewing room back in order.

Prior to going to my Mom's and after doing all the running around, I had a chance to do some quilting.  It was Christmas in April.  I was quilting two Santa stockings for a friend, each a mirror image of each other.  They don't look big, but they are actually 2 1/2' tall and just over 1 1/2' wide.

Here is an angle view, so you can see some of the actual quilting.  For the quilting it was mostly done by outlining the forms and in the larger areas I used some large spaced fill ins.

This close up picture shows some of the fill in waves in the Santa's beard.  It also shows the outline a bit better too.  I outlined the bricks, icicles, and the shading found in the arm and leg of Santa's suit.

Two more things off my list of things to do.  Unfortunately, it does not reduce the number of the quilting projects on my own list.  

Today I am thinking to change that and try to finish quilting something small, so that I can get some progress done on my own list.  I think it will be the Mariner's compass. 

Enjoy the sunshine.

Teddy bear quilt, part 1

On Wednesday I had a Quilting Bee meeting.  I shared with you some of the things that people were working on a couple of weeks ago.  Well have I got a treat for you.  One of those ladies has finished what she was working on and WOW what a quilt it turned out to be.

I am going to hold back some of the suspense and spread it out over a few posts and show the complete quilt at the very end.  I can tell you, you will not be disappointed.

The blocks are in not particular order.  This first block is of three bears sleeping.  Looks like papa bear in his cap, mama bear in her white bed cap(not sure what it is called) and baby bear all snuggled under a quilt.  The bottom border is a row of leaves and the right side is ribbon.

This one is a girl bear in a dress and matching hat sitting amongst a bunch of stars.

This block is of a boy bear wearing a jacket, sitting, leaning against a vase with flowers and talking to a cat.

The last one for today has got to be one of my favourites, which is a bear out on a rainy day in her raincoat and rain boots, under an umbrella while the leaves are falling.  I thought this was just the cutest and I love the cheerful raincoat.  The border on the top are he leaves that are below the sleeping bears and the right is ribbon.

This quilt was made my my friend Carol.  These blocks, as well as the others, are all very detailed.  Very tiny pieces.  All hand appliquéd and hand quilted.  I was overwhelmed with the whole quilt.  So much to look at.  It was amazing.  

I will leave you with that for now.  Stay tuned for the next batch tomorrow.