Thimbles and the final "doll" report

 The are the final three blocks for Izzy's "Paper Dolls" quilt.

I confess I made the tree design myself as I did not really like the one that came with the patterns-I did make it, then I threw it away.  Artistic license.

Now I'm waiting until the sashing fabric arrives-probably sometime next week- before I can work on it more.

I even took them down off the design wall.

Yesterday, was another wonderful  ZOOM chat with the Chookshed Stitchers!  Thank you Chooky-such fun as always.  It's really too bad that I can't stay up all night and party.

I should have stayed longer last night as a severe thunderstorm blew in and there was no sleep to be had.  This morning I had the thought that I should just have gotten up and gone back to the party.

I stitched together another row for my Civil War Sampler, made a hexie flower and worked on tumblers.

I don't think I explained the whole crazy tumbler idea well so I'm gonna give it a try here.

These are photos of the inspiration quilt.

I saw it at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden, Colorado.

I was a bad visitor-I didn't photograph the maker information-although there might not have been any.

A close up. You'll notice there is no quilting!

And the full quilt-

this reminds me of confetti!

I stood and looked at this for a LONG time. 

 I just couldn't figure out the design.  

I came to the conclusion that it was totally random.

There is no way I could duplicate this on even a small scale so I came up with the tumblers.

This at least recreates the 1/4" fabric pieces showing.

I cut many 3/4 inch strips of fabric.

This box is what I have left,

I sew the strips together and wind them on toilet paper rolls.

I did that to the blue yesterday.

Then I took 4 strips of old phone book paper cut as wide as the tumbler ruler and began sewing the strips with 1/4" seams.  Leaves 1/4" showing, well sometimes a bit more sometimes less.  

This is the first time I've done four papers at once, I just butted the ends together and kept going.  When the paper was covered

 I turned the strip over and used the ruler and a marker to make the tumblers and cut them apart so I had these.

They were added to the tin with all of these-

Just for you Janet-there are 376 tumblers!

I'll be making more tomorrow.

At some point I'm going to have to think about sewing them together!

Also for Janet-the quilt museum in Lincoln is the International Quilt Museum-they have a fun email every month with a quilt from their collection.

Here's another insane Idea quilt I say at Golden.  These half square triangles were TINY!

Anyone want to try it?

Not me.