Four-In-Art: Literature: Fairly Tales #3

 Today's the Day! Another round of Four-In-Art Mini Quilt Reveals.  If you've been following along this year, you'll know that our theme for the year is Literature.  We could do whatever we wanted within that, so I've gone down the road of Fairy Tales.  As each piece has emerged, my goal has been to show the story without having to explain it, so without further ado, Fairy Tales #3.

 In case you missed it, let me direct your eyes to the small green bead at the bottom of the orange layer.

The Princess and the Pea!

 Now in the real story by Hans Christian Andersen, there were 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds.  I stuck with a total of twenty due to space and ability in construction.  It was my first time sewing with selvedges, so that was pretty fun!

 Once I got ideas about embellishing, I tried my best to add a bit more in the realm of 3D, with things such as lace and beads.

 A puffy pillow on top.

 And the very boring back.  I completely forgot about hanging pockets, as I was so excited to get this one finished, and yes, it does indeed need a label.  I have a few that I need to get printed for projects, so I'll do them all at the same time.

I'll talk a bit more about the actual construction in my next post, like how I built that awesome ladder!  But until then you simply must go look at all the others quilts.  Here is a list to help you out.

Betty at a Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com

Catherine  at Knotted Cotton

Elizabeth at OPQuilt.com 

Jennifer at Secondhand Dinosaur 

Nancy at  Patchwork Breeze

Simone at Quiltalicious

Susan at PatchworknPlay