Meet Miss Goodchild!!

I still need a few more things to out out in September for “Back To School”.  I had a gardener lady pattern, so I adapted it to make a teacher doll.

Meet Miss Goodchild!  She is a strict school marm who loves her children and expects them all to love learning as much as she loves teaching!!

I used my favorite Michael Miller apple fabric for her dress and I took apart an old teacher wallhanging I used to use in my classroom that was made from a cute school panel.  I used the panel and ABC strips for her apron.  I still need to paint some toothpicks yellow and make some pencils to stick in her bun!!

I found some more teacher-ish school prints at G-Street this weekend, too!!  May have to make some more things with them… stay tuned!!

Back to School!

As I posted before, I am needing some more teacher stuff to decorate my house with for September.  And I really needed something school-ish to hang over the mantle in the family room.

So, I sketched up a design on one inch block graph paper including an old-fashioned schoolhouse, falling leaves, a tree branch with an apple hanging from it… notice how excited Yogi is about my project!  :-)

I picked some appropriately fun fabrics from my stash closet.

I cut out the pieces I needed for all the different parts!

It was just like putting a puzzle together.  I made the leaves first…then the apple, then the schoolhouse then pieced the sky and grass around it all.

I added a thin brown border then a wider border with a favorite fall forest print!  I layered it with a backing and batting and quilted it with a black metallic thread that had bits of primary colors woven in it! 

I bound it with a pretty green fabric, added some three dimensional leaves on the branch and apple and a small gold bell on the schoolhouse.

So, what do you think?

 

MODA Blog Hop

September is National Sewing Month and
the Moda designers will be having a month long blog hop beginning September 6th featuring a daily post and project from each of the participating designers. Each designer is featuring a fun make it and take style project that is inspired by the country fair theme.

Here’s the lineup for the blog hop!!

September 6th    Sandy Gervais of Pieces from My Heart

September 7th   Anne Sutton of Bunny Hill Designs

September 8th Barb/Mary from Me and My Sister Designs

September 9th Camille Roskelley of Thimbleblossoms

September 10th Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts

September 11th Basic Grey

September 12th Polly/Laurie from Minick and Simpson

September 13th Sandy Klop from American Jane (Post will be featured on Moda's blog)

September 14th Liesl from Oliver + S

September 15th Joanna from Fig Tree and Co.

September 16th Lynne from Kansas Troubles

September 17th Barb and Alma from Blackbird Designs

September 18th Aneela Hoey from Comfortstitching.com

September 19th Barbara from Barbara Brackman

September 20th Bonnie from Cotton Way

September 21st Christina from Cabbages and Roses

September 22nd Deb Strain

September 23rd Jan Patek of Brannock and Patek

September 24th Lauren and Jessi Jung

September 25th Stephanie from Lily Ashbury

September 26th Julie from Cosmo Cricket

September 27th Kate Spain

September 28th Karla, Susan and Lisa from Sweetwater

September 29th Kaari from French General

September 30th Lisa from Primitive Gatherings

and the fun continues into October

October 1st Kathy from Kathy Schmitz Studio

October 2nd Liz from Liz Scott Designs

So, get ready for a whole month of fun ideas and great sewing! I can’t wait!!