Category: Sewing

• Monkey Wrench 2019-2020 Designing as I go

  

  Machine pieced Monkey Wrench Pattern using triangles and squares to form the 10″ Squares.  This quilt was started in May 2019 and finished in August 2020. A friend from quilting mentioned that she wanted to do a monkey wrench quilt but all she had was directions for a twelve inch block. Thinking about it I…

  marcia mcdade

  June 30, 2019

  abstract, collage, fiber, Hand work, quilting, rags, scraps, Sewing

  Crafts, piecing, quilting, scraps, techniques

• Quilts Speak at NC Museum of History

  

  Highlights from our day at the Quilt In with the Cedar Grove Quilters

  marcia mcdade

  June 16, 2019

  abstract, fiber, folkart, Hand work, quilting, rags, scraps, Sewing

  cedar grove quilters, colorful, demonstration, handmade, quilting, quilts, Sewing, worshops

• Marion Making a Checkerboard Border

  

    Step One cut 3 inch stripes of black and white.  Sew them together in two patterns.  White Black White and Black White Black. It took quite a while to assemble this border and then attach it to the quilt.   Once it was complete I took it to show it to the Cedar Grove Quilters. …

  marcia mcdade

  March 6, 2019

  abstract, fiber, quilting, Sewing

  color, Crafts, quilting, scraps, Sewing, technique, techniques

• Rag Dolls–Alpaca Hair and the Bath Town Dolls

  

  I was inspired to make dolls for a while. Two converging experience caused this. I was helping my great aunt finish a quilting project that had been laying around for a longtime. It was important to let her complete as much on her own. I was just a guiding force. While she would work I…

  marcia mcdade

  January 4, 2017

  dolls, fiber, figurative, folkart, Hand work, rags, scraps, Sewing

  Crafts, dolls, handwork, rags, recycle, Reuse, scraps, Sewing, soft sculpture

• One on one art lessons-Finishing the Mermaid Doll

  

  This doll had a crazy start.  My great niece liked to play with old Barbies from the time she was a baby and she loved the Little Mermaid so I made a tail that would fit over the Barbie Legs.  I came across this tail the other day and needing a refresher course in doll making, I thought,  I…

  marcia mcdade

  July 24, 2014

  dolls, fiber, figurative, Hand work, rags, scraps, Sewing, Soft Sculpture

  creative, design, dollmaking, expressive, handmade, imagination, play, Sewing

• My Irish Chain comes out for St Patricks Day

                       Front and Back       Thank you Cedar Grove Quilters

  marcia mcdade

  March 29, 2014

  fiber, Hand work, Sewing