Doll Quilt--Lab Puppies

One last look at a Lab Puppies quilt.  This one is a doll quilt.   I incorporated the asymmetric borders from the lap quilt, but these blocks have a symmetric layout. It is quilted just off the ditch, with decorative stitching on the bottom border and the Bernina #4 stitch on the left side. 

The back is fleece, so there is no batting in this little project.  The binding was made of scraps of other quilt bindings--I think these scrappy bindings are my favorite!

Lab Puppies Quilt

Lab puppies!!  I'm really looking forward to working on this new quilt project.  I'm using my Black Lab Puppies fabric, available at my shop at Spoonflower.com, and some of my stashed collection of 1930s feed sack reproduction fabrics.

The puppies are printed on baby blue, light blue, aqua, pink and peach backgrounds--all colors which coordinate beautiful with the 30s fabrics.

My fussy cut Lab Puppies block is 4 inches x 5 inches.  I'll pair them with striped blocks the same finished size. The strips for the pieced block are cut 2 inches wide.  Sewing 3 strips together with 1/4 inch seams gives a block 5 inches wide. The strip pieced section can then be cut in 4 inch lengths to make 4 x 5 inch finished blocks.

I've put my cut strips in my drawstring bag and am going to try random piecing for the strip blocks! (I'm not good at sticking to random. We'll see)!!

It's going to be a happy, scrappy quilt!

Black Lab Puppies Mono Print Fabric

This summer I learned how to make Andy Warhol Inspired Mono Prints on Creativebug.com. They are easy and so much fun!

I used two of my mono prints to make this Black Lab Puppies Mono Print fabric at Spoonflower.com.  It's available in an assortment of pastels, perfect for making items for a baby.

The colors are especially vivid printed on the minky fabric that Spoonflower offers.  It's so soft! I turned the design 90 degrees in both pink and aqua options, just so it can be used to make little blankets or other home dec projects.  A yard of the minky is 54 wide x 36 inches.

Printed on Spoonflower's minky fabric (Pink background)

The pair of lab puppties can be fussy cut into 5 inch wide x 4 inch high patches if you want to use it for a quilting project.

I'm really looking forward to sewing with this fabric!  Especially since the prints are from photos of one of my dogs!