I received my quilt last month. It is not my style, it is not something I would normally make myself. It is not one with the fresh and crisp look I like. And I really like it a lot! It is a beauty! Lovely, little, warm and loving doll quilt! It is a warm, lovingly made and lovingly-worn-looking one, all colours being a little bit subtle, all the prints with the delicate soft look of an antique quilt. The colour combination is not usual - almost bright solids with delicate floras in romantic beige and pink. It matches the biggest quilt I have made so far, one that I keep at home and is yellow and blue - all squares. A perfect match! The quilting is delicate feather machine stitch. The texture makes me think of a lady / at least my age or even double my age/ who has used it to make her dolls warm in a cold winter evening. It is all made with lots of love and it shows. It is made by Rachel. Thank you! And the quilt I made for this round was received too. It is this one - now I can tell it was a Doll Quilt Swap quilt. You can read Tina's comments there to see how it was received - swap magic!

It is a small quilt, I think it is the smallest one I have made so far. It is partly inspired by the Improve part in Project Improve. I had to make something without my machine, I needed something nice, nice to make, easy to assemble and different than what I normally would make. So it was easy to make it different - white to replace the colours, scissors to be the cutting tool, needle to replace the machine /no options really here/. I have being keeping some yo-yos for a year so I really wanted to use some of them. I like the clean and simple look of it. It appears to have some serene qualities and I do like serene style in quilts. I call it a successful experiment and have already planed some new ones to match. It is my first quilt made by hand - no single machine stitch here, nor any rotary cutting or any other "modern" help. I used Perle cotton for the quilting and did not quilted too much as I was trying to make it all as as simple as possible. I am still not sure if it would look better with some white quilting on the background. I decided not to add it to keep the texture of the ovals. The quilting is in three different shades of green. Oh, and the label is in orange /of course/.