This is a sample that I made for a quilt kit that I used to sell in my Etsy shop. Since the shop was closed long ago, I thought I should finally quilt some of these doll quilt tops. Here’s my description of the pattern from an earlier post about the top:
The only place I could find this pattern is on the first page of Maggie Malone’s 5,000 Quilt Block Designs. She calls it “Big O”, but the name doesn’t have a reference to any publication. I thought I should change the name for this little quilt.
The pattern reminds me of Kansas Dugout (here is mine — also made with feedsacks), but Kansas Dugout has many set-in pieces and is usually hand sewn. Little “O” is pretty simple to sew on the machine, even in this reduced size, because you only have to sew one partial seam (Thanks, Dottie!). I drew several different layouts, but finally decided on this one with blocks in vertical rows separated by sashing; then vertical rows offset and sewn together without sashing. To me, this mixes up the blocks and makes the quilt more interesting, but it’s still relatively easy to put together.
The quilt has 46 blocks made with 184 different feedsack prints, plus a feedsack border. For the background fabric, I used a vintage muslin with a slightly coarser weave, which is very similar to the feedsacks. The finished blocks are 2″.
The back is made with leftover pieces of the feedsack border fabric, and the binding is a vintage percale. The quilting is very simple with a square grid in the blocks and straight lines in the border.
Little “O” Doll Quilt
Martha Dellasega Gray, 2014
Machine Pieced, Hand Quilted
17″ x 21″
