Quilt for a Little Girl – pictures of the making: Land

I have blogged about the number quilt I designed and made for my grand niece here. The quilt is divided into three panels, land, water and air. I had no access to any patterns with measurements, so I designed the quilt and the blocks on graph paper. I  made the ‘blocks and sewed them on to a flannel background, joining and quilting them as I went along!

The land panel came up first – with`one’ house’ and `two’ trees
The little lace curtains on the door and window are unstitched on one edge. I used satin ribbon for the tree trunk and that brown panel at the bottom of the house. The green of the trees was a favourite saree – one that I bought with my first salary. And the green of the grass is my mother’s frayed saree.

The next came in the six flowers – not only are these disproportionately huge, they were tough to handle and not too neat! 🙁 As a beginner quilter, I had no idea you could spray starch fabric to make it easier to cut and sew pieces.

Here are the three cats with their 3-D tails.

Don’t you love his little red bow?! He does not look happy despite the fact that his background is a saree from my trousseau! And he himself ( as also the house) came from a saree blouse piece.

The Navy Cat – not very happy too! And that when I made him from the scraps of my favorite navy silk salwar and gave him this lovely braided tail!

I loved the background fabric of Mr. Marmalade Cat ( well loved silk kurta) and wanted to use it elsewhere too – but it frayed enormously.

So the three ungrateful and oversized cats found their way next to the house.

I shall write about how I made the sea and the sky panels in another blogpost!

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