I Spy

This is a quilt I posted a "work-in-progress" picture of last summer.  I finished it somewhere around the end of last summer.  It's a scrappy "I Spy" quilt.  I just cut out pieces of novelty fabrics that I really like, then bordered them with wonky borders, then cut them all down to squares and rectangles and sewed them together.  Here's the finished product:

Old Pictures

 I was looking through all my old pictures of my bears, and I thought I'd share some of my favorites :)  All of these little guys are two inches tall, except for Petunia.  Petunia is one inch tall.

 This is Brambles.

 

Butterscotch

 

Coco

Eggnog

I love these pictures of Gingerbread :)

 Petunia

Robert

 Seafoam stars in some of my favorite pictures.

 Stardust

This is Stu, he's another favorite.  I actually sewed and then tie-dyed his shirt :)

Tim

Wesley

Alec

Here's one of my latest one-inch bears!  His name is Alec, and he's fully jointed and made of ultrasuede.  I have him on etsy here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/76662247/alec-ooak-1-miniature-teddy-bear

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I'm on etsy!

Well, I finally got myself on etsy.  Here’s my “store”: http://www.etsy.com/shop/katrinasminiatures

Right now, I’m posting all the animals I’ve made over the last few years, but never gotten a chance to sell.  Some of them are a little old and others are quite new.  I’m hoping they’ll do well.  I’m also hoping I’ll be able to get new ones made, so I can keep putting new ones up for sale.  I have so many ideas and so many projects I can hardly keep up with myself sometimes!  As long as I keep things balanced and work on things a little bit at a time, I think I can keep going at a slow and steady pace and get things done.  It’s a little challenging to balance everything I want to do (work, studying, art, reading, school…), but with priorities, deadlines, and patience, I should be fine.  I just need to set aside a little time for everything each day, or each week, and I can slowly work on getting everything done.

Store Sample Quilts

I just keep making quilts as store samples for Mom :)  Here are two of the latest:

This first one uses a book panel we have at the store, but I made it into a quilt instead.  I love it.  It reminds me of a book I used to check out of the school library all the time in the third grade.

I really like the fabrics in this one, too.  I tend to like animal fabrics, and I really like the animals in this one.

Quilts of Valor

Well, after a long absence, I thought I'd see about maybe getting this going again.  I'm back working at Mom's quilt shop now, so I've been mostly making store samples.  I've made quite a few since coming home!  One of the first ones is a Quilts of Valor quilt.  It was designed by Robert Kaufman, and it's my first quilt with actual pieced blocks!  It'll be donated to a wounded veteran.

Tie-Dye!

I taught a class on tie-dyeing t-shirts at my mom's quilt shop last Saturday.  It was fun :)  My mom taught fabric-dyeing in the afternoon, and I experimented with new tie-dye designs :)  Here are my experiments:

I made an octopus!

This looks like an ichthys symbol :)

Doll Clothes

I volunteered to make a sample of a pattern for doll clothes that Mom has at her quilt shop.  It was so much fun!  I couldn't decide which fabrics I wanted to use, so Mom said I could make four dresses!  It's a modkid pattern, and it might be the best pattern I've ever worked with.  The instructions were very clear, the illustrations were helpful, and it only took about 2-3 hours to make each outfit.

We got out Mom's old doll and let her dress up too :)  We need to make her an appointment with a doll restorer though (we know someone who's really good).  For some reason, the poor doll has had her head partially shaved, and she's missing half of her eyelashes...

 

More Bears!

 I'm having a hard time coming up with names for some of my bears...  I guess I don't need to have them named until I get on etsy, which should happen around the middle/end of July :)

I just can't think of a name for this guy, but his face reminds me of Winnie the Pooh.

This one may wind up being named Alex.

I think I've decided this one will be named Blueberry Ice.

This is Andy.  He reminds me of Andes mints :)  His colors were inspired by the Indiana mint brownies we make every Christmas :)

Oh, p.s. all of these bears are two inches tall.