Civil War Doll Quilt

Another doll quilt top added to the pile for hand-quilting.  The alternate blocks and side triangles went together easily.  I had to ease a little with the borders, but it's not as wavy as it appears in the picture.  I snapped this picture looking out over the dock at our camp.

Album Quilt 

from

The Civil War Sewing Circle by Kathleen Tracy

Various reproduction fabrics, finished size 36" x 36"

While I had the camera handy, I grabbed a picture of the figs on my fig tree.  Two years ago we got a nice crop of figs in late June/early July.  Last year drought slowed up the production of figs, and the birds ate all the fruit before they had a chance to ripen.  This year I'm hoping for another crop of figs; the weather has been dry, so I've been watering the tree, but now I'll be gone for two weeks, so who knows what will happen.  If I was really energetic, I'd put a net over the tree to keep the birds out!

Interlude: Civil War Inspired Doll Quilt

I bought Kathleen Tracy's The Civil War Sewing Circle several months ago. There were so many projects in the book I wanted to try, but other projects always seemed to take priority.

Then, several weeks ago, I was invited to participate in a surprise birthday block gifting that required a 6 inch block in reproduction fabrics. I chose to make the album block featured in The Civil War Sewing Circle. I played with different fabric arrangements until I found a happy combo. But I couldn't stop there! The blocks were fun and quick to make and before I knew it, I had a batch of blocks made. There was nothing for it but to go ahead and make the entire album quilt!

The birthday block was sent on its way, and soon i had pieced together the nine blocks required for the quilt. Today I assembled the blocks and the plain squares and triangles; tomorrow the borders and more pictures.

If you're not familiar with the book, you can take a closer look at Amazon. The book contains some Civil War history and a variety of projects, including full-size quilts, doll quilts and small sewing projects such as pincushions.