Raggedy Trilogy ... a Belated Post

 

Ever so long ago I posted about what was to be referred to as the Raggedy Trilogy. Somehow way led unto way and I never posted the completed quilt made for our first granddaughter's first birthday. This was it when it was newly completed and ultimately gifted. That has been very nearly seven years ago now. It was, however, completed on time and is somewhere in her home. It all began when I had completed my first  Dresden Plate and wondered what to do with it.  If I could remember more of the construction decisions as they came about, I would gladly relate them here, but come on. Seriously? No way to call up those details this long later. Suffice it to say, every quilt has its own adventures in decision-making and end-arounds. I'm sure this one was no different.

         See also:

The May 6, 2017 post .... Post Script or Postage Stamp? <- Click here to see post.

The Jan. 17, 2017 post... Digital Design.. Free Style  <- Click here to see post.

and see the Raggedy Ann Pillow, completed back then, posted before this post.

Raggedy Pillow project...from 2016

Once I got started on the Raggedy Trilogy, it seemed that ideas kept coming to mind for use of the fabric leftover from the quilt.  I decided to do a pillow of Raggedy Ann and had worked out the front in increments which were stacked in order using Heat.N.Bond lite to attach for applique. I found some eyelet lace in my mother's stash from the 1950's when she had made my sister and I costumes to celebrate our city's Sesquicentennial...a happy and sentimental addition. Why not?

 I found the perfect buttons for Ann's eyes in Mother's button jar, too. Having gone this far, I decided this project was just the right size for me to try my hand at prairie points. (I like to start small with first attempts.) Once that was done, it seemed the pillow might be turned over from time to time, so since it was easy to imagine the back side of Ann, nothing to do but forge ahead...or behind, in this case.

The Prairie Points had worked out fine for the front, but the back asked pretty please for peppermint-like yoyos. So, okay. That's what it got for asking so sweetly.

Could I do all this again? I kind of think not. That's the way of inspired works, it seems.