Whiplash - May challenge - Miniature quilts
The winner of the whiplash theme poll was Miniature quilts - thank you to everyone who took part.
The theme is open till the end of May.
A miniature quilt, otherwise known as ‘doll quilt‘, ‘fat quarter quilt’ or more simply ‘quarter quilt‘, can be made out of just about anything - try using scraps, or just a couple of fat quarters. There is no rule about the size of these, but usually small or miniature means not as big as a cot quilt, usually they are hung on walls, framed or used for a doll house. They can be practical - perhaps used as table mats or sewn into cushion covers. You could make them extra mini and turn into a greeting cards. Any sort of quilting method is suitable too, traditional patterns, random piecing, crazy quilting or journal quilting how about hand quilting a especially beautiful fabric. For more information check out a local miniature quilt guild near you.
Some inspiration to get you started:
Thimble has used image transfer methods on a folk art inspired mini quilt :: wee wonderfuls has the most gorgeous doll quilts and other mini quilts :: angry chicken of Kingpod has beautiful mini art quilts :: buzzville scrap mini quilt
on flickr: needle felted bear with rustic mini quilt :: part of a happy quilt journal :: mini cat quilt :: doll quilt swap pool ::
Images from: angrychicken, weewonderfuls and buzzville. Top image is from weewonderfuls site from a vintage quilt magazine.
dig deeper into whipup: Week’s quilted placemats with tutorial :: memewatch on doll quilts :: fav blog posts with highlighted doll quilts by treefall ::
May 13th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
how fun is this Yeah I love minis.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:07 am
oh! i’ve been looking for a good reason to make one of these — thank you. :)
May 14th, 2007 at 8:22 am
[...] As it turns out, craftivism and fairy tales were both popular with other readers, but not popular enough. The winner? Miniature quilts. By a significant margin - 166 out of 682 votes. Craftivism and fairy tales were the runners-up, at around 90 votes each. I hope that means those topics will come up in future months, because Miniature Quilting May is doing nothing for me. [...]
May 14th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
[...] Oh well, it’s not like we don’t have challenges to keep us occupied. Maybe I’ll try to combine project spectrum with whiplash’s miniature quilt challenge. I kinda wish we had the full month for this one, not just the remainder of May! Peeking out of the bottom of the photo to the left you will see a reprint of a 1950’s quilt book I found when op-shopping. Lot’s of inspiration there. [...]
May 15th, 2007 at 2:18 am
You could always do an activist mini quilt or a fairy tale mini quilt…actually, maybe I will…hehehe
May 16th, 2007 at 9:19 am
for some crazy quilting ideas, you might start with my blog, the Sporadic Packrat (lots of links, some tutorials), and be sure to go to Inaminuteago, http://www.inaminuteago.com/blog/. See also the Crazy Quilt webring, http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/list.pl?ringid=cqe.
May 16th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
[...] Oh, and speaking of little quilts, did you notice that the Whiplash theme for May is miniature quilts? They even linked to our flickr photo pool. Hooray! [...]
May 18th, 2007 at 2:07 am
top image is actually from a book I checked out from the library, Collecting American Country by Mary Emmerling.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Thanks Hillary for the info
K
May 18th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Love these doll quilts…I’m an addict. Looking forward to the next doll quilt swap over at http://losabia.wordpress.com/doll-quilt-swap/ I knew that!
May 29th, 2007 at 3:24 am
I’m such a doll quilt addict. Well… making all quilts, but especially doll quilts. Thank you for fostering the art!