A little quilt for my Ella & Molly too

Drum roll, please…

I am actually sewing again, it has been ages!!  Don’t get too excited though, it is nothing major, I just set out to do something new, and to learn a few new skills with stuff I already had.  The something new part is not a big stretch considering I am new to the entire sewing thing, nor was using something I already had.  So, I perused the all powerful Internet and decided to make  a little doll quilt for Ella using the brown minky she drags around with her when I am too tired to figure out how she found it again, and some charm squares I picked up from Strawberry Patches a couple months ago.  I figured, #1 it would be a small project just in case I lost interest, #2 I would give my poor daughter something proper to drag around rather than two raw yards of fabric, and #3 learn some patch work skills that did not involved squares and maybe come up with something decent where the corners matched!  This is the result using Moda’s Urban Chicks 1974 charm squares.

I found this depression block while searching, and it seemed easy enough since I already had pre-cut charm squares.  I ended up with one block and an extra row on the top and on one side to make it usable dimensions for a doll quilt.  The final dimensions are 20”x24”, and it works out quite well for baby Molly and mamma Ella.

Here are a few more pics for good measure too:

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