My Modern Mini: Tickle Tape

Wow - I love it.  I know it's nothing that hasn't been done before - it's 'just another spectrum quilt,' but I wanted to try it, and it turned out better than I had hoped.  I also had never done raw edge applique of this magnitude, and loved that too!

Basically, I just pulled fabrics from my stash, from a color wheel charm swap and from olive and ollie's scraps...  then got to cut and fussy cut to my heart's content!  My 5 year old (the model) absolutely had her heart set on a pink heart as the center motif, but i edged it in black for some well-needed contrast.  I hope that you enjoy it as much as I do!  My daughters' favorite bubbles are the elephants, chickens, owls, robot, etc!!  I used a lot of dot fabrics to echo the "bubble" motif, but they just like the fussy cut ones.  Can't wait to make them some I-spy quilts then!

Please ignore the disappearing marker that hasn't been disappeared yet.

Tickle Tape: The Audition Process

I'm currently working on a doll quilt for the cradle between my girls' beds.  Okay, it's also to enter the modern mini quilt contest, but still...  My oldest daughter's been after me to make a ticker tape quilt ever since I showed one to her one day; she just loves them!  The other day, though, she slipped and called it a tickle tape quilt, and so that is definitely the name of this little version!!

I've got the ticker tape pieces laid out in the "audition" process....   does your eye see any that need adjusting?  I still haven't decided what to do with the heart in the center.  My original intent had been a medium pink, but it's just not right.  I need to play around with that some more.