Thank you to everyone who chimed in and shared a story about passing on sewing/quilting to the next generation! Reading the stories has inspired me to pass on sewing/quilting to my girls.
I think I may have just found one way to do that – through dollhouse quilts.
For my daughter’s 5th birthday, we got her a dollhouse. Besides furniture and a family, what does every dollhouse need? A quilt, of course!
I ordered the dollhouse and furniture and while I waited for them to arrive, I started working on the quilt. I was thinking of making a broken dishes quilt, but after making one block, I knew that project would have to wait until I have ample time to spend paper piecing little HSTs. My sample block is 1 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ and would finish at 1″ x 1″.
With the broken dishes quilt on hold, I decided to try simple squares. These squares finish at 1/2″ x 1/2″.
The quilting took all of five minutes – a record in quilting speed for me!
Here it is quilted.
The bed arrived just as I was finishing up the quilt. Thankfully at 5 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ it fit!
This is the tiniest quilt that I’ve ever made. Making squares that finished at 1/2″ x 1/2″ was definitely a challenge, but worth the effort.
I am so smitten with this tiny quilt. I see more in the future. Hopefully I’ll have my daughter by my side helping me to craft more of these teeny quilts.
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That is the most darling little quilt. I have a new dolls house downstairs in a box for miss 3 – it's just waiting for nana to arrive next Friday to unpack it. I have been imagining teeny weeny quilts! Your little binding is awesome!
This is so wonderfully cute! Absolutely perfect and I'm sure your little girls will love it. I am very impressed with how straight your squares are and also the mini pinwheel! Beautiful work Nicole x
That is gorgeous! And I see you have made it in what I have come to think of as your signature colours. I think we learn our love of crafting from enthusiastic people around us and it can happen at any age, but blessed are children with crafty parents.
It's sooo cute!!
So very sweet!
Oh my goodness. That is very sweet and will make the dollhouse more "homey", I'm sure!
How special! I can't wait to see the tiny matching pillows you are going to make to match this cute quilt! 🙂
Love it!
So fun!
Wow this is by far the cutest quilt i have ever seen!! I love it!
A lovely miniature doll house quilt. A treasure … 🙂 Pat
Adorable! Fab photos, Nicole!
so sweet and cute cute
SO sweet! And glad that it's for a bed in your house! A precious way to share your sewing with your girls!
Wonderful! So cute! Your daughter must love it!
That is Sew Sweet! I love it!
Lorna:)
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Adorable! The perfect touch to a new doll house.
How dinky! It must be so cute in real life – imagine doing a whole quilt in 1/2" squares GAH!
Wow! What patience. Now you must make one even bigger with the same blocks. Ha! Ha!
It's wonderful.
This is completely adorable! I'm sure it will tempt your daughter to learn with you. How did you do the binding on something that teeny tiny?
I agree..The binding is amazing! This is the cutest thing ever 🙂
Sooooo Cute!! Have you made an appointment with the optometrist now??!
Too adorable! I assume you had to use a smaller seam allowance, or was pressing just a nightmare?
Hi! This is the most cute quilt! I want to make one even I don't have girls or doll house. x Teje
Wow! Good job. It looks so "real". 🙂 Also it looks like those size squares would be a real challenge to work with! But, I've made doll clothes before, so I can imagine how satisfying it was to have it turn out so well in spite of the challenge. 🙂
That is so gorgeously cute, beautiful colours and I love how it drapes, even when it's so small.
I LOVE this! I never would have thought of it, but I'm so glad that you did! It will definitely be on my to-do list after my girls get just a tad older, and I can pull my dollhouse out of storage. Your quilt is darling!
So, so cute. I love this, why didn't I think of dolls quilts? You daughter must be thrilled, what a precious gift.
This is so cute and a color combo I've been collecting.
I'm completely in love with it! I love tiny piecing… It turned out great, too. I know how hard it is to keep tiny seams straight!
Amazing, and so cute, I love those colours together. Did you really put binding on something so small?
Love love LOVE! That's one lucky doll 😉
Ahhh! That is so cute!! My girls would love it!
Ack!!! That is the cutest thing ever!!!
Really cute!
Whoa! So tiny. Great job!
Awesome minis!! I am amazed at how cute AND small you make those things!!
Susie
Amazingly small – I am not sure how you sew those tiny bits together 🙂 Very cute.
This is darling!
Your patience paid off, nicely done!
This is so gorgeous. I made a tiny quilt for a friend once, who has doll houses. It was lots of fun.
Oh my word, Nicole, this is adorable!!
I think I need one of these at the office, to brighten my day!
How adorable!
Aww, so cute!
Wow. You did a terrific job! That is adorable! I would love to do one! Back in the day I probably would have, but now…I am not that great at tiny things anymore! I am planning on making doll quilts for 3 of my grand daughters for christmas…any suggestions?
Cheri
My mother just asked me to make a quilt for a new dollhouse, this is charming inspiration!
Truly mindbogglingly wonderful! So many little bitty squares. I wonder if I could do it too. 🙂
Liked the quilt the colors are beautiful. I’m curious what goes inside of it? I’m a lover of crazy quilts myself and made quite a few, but nothing this small.
Thanks, CJ! I didn’t put anything inside. It’s just the top and backing stitched together. It’s not quite as challenging as it may appear!
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