Eyes and noses on baby quilt

Tiny yo-yos or needleturned appliqued dots?

Eyes:

1:Use your zigzag stitch if you have one for them 2: use embroidery thread and put a dot of Fray Check on the knot before you 'pop it in'. It's suppose to keep it from unknotting. 3: Use different line stitches for closed/opened eyes and add 'lashes' You could have a lot of fun with this one

nose/mouth

1: same as 1 above 2: same as 2 above 3: applique circles 4: sew on yo-yos

You could add a 'mouth' under the nose area and do quite a few different expressions. Depends on how much time and creativity you want to spend on it.

HTH Butterfly

Have you ever used the kind of 'button forms' that you cover with your own fabric to match a garment you are making? - or you could use an actual button roughly the size you want.

You could adapt that procedure for what you need here: cut a circle of fabric a bit larger than the 'button'. Run a gathering thread around the edge; place it over the 'button' and pull the gathering tight; adjust the top side if it looks uneven; press the combination of button and fabric. Carefully remove the button - the pressing should mean that you still have the neat shape. Put a tiny bit of batting where the 'button' was and pull the gathering thread tight again - holding the centre so that the edge doesn't disappear. This is all pretty much like yo-yos (as have been suggested), but you are putting in a little bit of 'stuffing'.

I love Butterfly's idea of playing with expressions, if you have time! . In message , Hanne in DK writes

Den 28-09-2012 07:07, Butterfly-Wings skrev:

Do you mean zigzag "randomly" until a round-ish eye appear? Or just outline?

I might go for this one - I guess a sampler of eyes would be appropriate.

I have some time (yet), and am willing to spend a lot of creativity - just want to make sure that everything will hold up.

Hanne in DK

What a lovely quilt - except for the buttons and babies!

I use freezer paper cut to the right size. Iron onto reverse of fabric and cut about 1/4"+ bigger. Gather round the edges, pull up gently round the template and then smooth with fingers and press. I usually leave the paper in until I have almost sewn all the way round and then slip it out with a pair of tweezers, or if I forget (!) make a tiny slit in the back and pull it out that way.

You can > I'm thinking of making a baby quilt sort of like this:

Thanks, I like this. I might combine with one or two winking or sleeping bears :-)

I like the quilt, as it is fairly simple in expression, but not too basic. I always imagined that for this family I'd go all out will a full blown Noah's ark, but when I saw this one, I just loved it. It will either be all blues, or a bunch of different bright coloured bears with unifying background. I actually have enough blue batiks, and I might even have the same kind of teddy bear fabric used for the border!

Hanne in DK

Den 28-09-2012 11:35, Sally Swindells skrev:

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Let's see if this gets you to my 'Peepers' quilt:

if that doesn't work to suit us, try going to where Jenx showed the WH I just finished and look for it there. Honestly, I had such fun with those eyes. The Peepers quilt has been Seriously loved and laundered and still has all its eyes. Polly

Den 28-09-2012 13:15, Polly Esther skrev:

Awesome! Are they appliqué? Both the white and the black?

I'm thinking more and more that the quilt will be bright (as opposed to all blue), that is much more my style for baby quilts, and I'm doing other sewing for his room to the colour choices of the mother, so for the quilt only I decide!

Hanne in DK

You are absolutely right, Hanne. Today's mother's notion of baby room decor bores me to tears. The last one I saw was brown and olive drab. What are they thinking? Meanwhile, back to the eyes, I ran a gathering thread to turn under the edges Firmly, pressed with a coin inside to get a fairly neat rim and sneaked the coin out. You can better see the stitch I used on the close-up of Peeper's orange head. It is a good thing I did such baby-proof stitching. That quilt has a busy life. Just as I had hoped. Polly

Good hint about the light reflecting.

Not sure what velveteen is? Velvet-like cotton?

The shop is either Stoff2000 (fabric stores) or Panduro (hobby store) :-)

Hanne in DK

Den 28-09-2012 15:14, Roberta skrev:

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It looks like a blanket stitch?

The other colours are just pastels. Brown is a cool colour, if mixed with turquoise, and orange and bright green :-)

Hanne in DK

Den 28-09-2012 14:26, Polly Esther skrev:

That is naught but a dozen faces so machine or hand embroidery would work. Appliqué would work. Or you could combine the two and couch yarn circles down and then proceed as for dorset buttons, thus giving the look of very old fashioned buttons with the security of them not only being more securely fastened down, but guaranteed to fall apart should the wee one manage to chew them off (which would be unlikely IMO).

NightMist

Panduro! Although it wasn't always called that. But there was another one, down on the corner past the Stoff2000 -my brain is a blank. If you were a kindergarten or a club of some kind, they would issue you a

10% discount card. they had all kinds of hobby and craft supplies. I'd be sad to hear it had disappeared.

I guess what I'm us>Good hint about the light reflecting.

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Panduro merged with another chain some years ago, the shop is still on the corner. Don't know that they'll do discounts though :-(

I think I have some heavy black brushed cotton (from what I don't know, but now I know why!)

Thank you all, I am much less concerned about the eye/nose issue now! Still, what was the author thinking...

Hanne in dK

Den 29-09-2012 11:22, Roberta skrev:

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Zigzag randomly -as many layers as you'd like -just don't go baby fingernail catching width

After reading the rest of the responses: how about doing different color eyes for those that will be open, asleep, half-awake, winking, etc

and for the pupil: looking straight ahead, left, right, one open - one closed

Whatever you decide have FUN and pics would be appreciated.

Like the idea of different color bears.

HTH Butterfly (off to close my Hazel eyes for the night)