This year I made Christmas gifts for most all the grandkids. I make scrappy pillows for Lilian and Emelia in their new bedroom colors. To make the embroidered faces, I used the Cut Work Portrait technique.
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| scrappy backs |
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| Lily |
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| Em |
I also made snappy purses. Em got one for her birthday, with several things tucked inside, ribbons for handles. Lily got a reversible one in brown and teal. Isabel loves animals so I used a fabric panel of parrots, and tucked in some paper and colored pens for her art and note taking. She has been using it constantly since she got it, so I think she likes it!
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| Em's birthday snappy purse with ribbon handles, and prarie point pulls. |
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| Lily's birthday snappy purse front. |
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| Lily's birthday snappy purse back. |
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| Isa's snappy purse from fabric panel, pockets with pad of paper and pens. |
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| Front side of Isa's purse, used border of panel to make prarie point pulls. |
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| One more bit of the panel as a pocket inside. |
My hubby, Dan, made Damon a step stool with storage area.
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| Damon carried the step stool all around with him all day. Even when he stepped away a couple feet to grab more chips! |
I am in the process of writing a book on the process I am now calling "Cut Work Portraits". I belong to a quilt chat group, and the quilts I have made using this process has been really popular. Many people have requested I write the book with alot more details and I plan to include some generic type patterns.
You can see a little about these type of quilts at:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-130238-1.htm - please note that the tutorial is no longer available, as I am working on the book.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-125355-1.htm - this has a bit of tute on the process
and http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-34032-1.htm also has as bit of a tute
To see the options of the book cover:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-147529-1.htm - there have been several revisions throughout the pages of this thread, and I have more options to add!
Besides this one book, heavy into publication preparation process at the moment, I have several other patterns and books in various planning stages.
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| Lily |
