When my American Sewing Guild decided to create something special for the Working Women Survival show at St. Louis, they chose the American Doll as their theme. It was decided to create a wardrobe for the doll as well as a bed.  My husband, who is a craftsman in woodworking came to our rescue. We gave him the dimensions to create a bed that would co-ordinate with the early 1800. What he created was so beautiful that I decided to create the bedding for it. Here are the pictures of the finished doll bed complete with bedding. I chose cream color satin as my main fabric for all the bedding and a tan color satin for accent. The bed measures 24"x18" and is made out of walnut which was steel wooled and finished by my daughter. The whole project took approximately one month. I had been working on a new design collection which was perfect for the quilt. As the collection had cutwork designs in it, I decided to use the lighter color satin for embroidery with the darker color satin underneath for accent as well as for the border around the center design and binding. The completed design medallion in the quilt measures approximately 11" square. It took me three hoopings (6x10 hoop) using  12 designs all for the 4x4 hoops to create the center medallion. I added the darker satin as accent border around the center lining the medallion with the darker color satin as well. The lighter satin was then added all around the darker borders to finish the quilt top. The quilt was stippled quilted using monofilament thread as I wanted the satin to create ripples without showing any threads. This satin was bought years ago (do not know exactly but definitely over 15 years ago) in Pakistan. The satin had a lot of watery movement to it and is very soft. The darker satin was bought at Jackman's in St. Louis for another project and was left over but worked perfectly as the  co-ordinating color for the quilt.

The mattress was made of feathers which were placed within the warm and natural batting and then hand sewn to create the effect of ticking. The bed sheets were all made from the cream color satin as was the bed skirt. The bolster was also made from the light color satin with the darker satin used in the ends. I was able to find matching tassles which I used on the ends of the bolster. The bolster was also stipple quilted as were the matching pair of darker satin square cushions.

This ensemble along with "Molly" will be up for raffle at the ASG booth at the Working Women Survival show at the Cervantes Convention Center, on February 21, 22 and 23, 2003. The ASG booth number is 1334.

	Closeup of the quilt.
	Another closeup

 

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