Well, I’ve got my first month’s color challenge complete! When I was cutting up the blue, I thought that I had a lot of fabric cut up, but I just kept cutting. Then I thought I didn’t have very much cut up, so I kept cutting. Man oh man did I have a lot of fabric cut up…
As I was assembling this quilt top, it just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. I was planning/hoping for a square picnic quilt, ended up with a compete twin size quilt. In fact, I laid it out on my king size bed to try to get a picture of it and it covered the whole top of it – complete! OMG – it’s huge. No wonder I’m exhausted from pulling and pushing that thing around my little sewing table.
So I can’t get a picture of the full thing until I can find somewhere to hang it up high enough that it’s not on the ground. But here is a picture of 1/4 of it.
I did put it together wrong – twice. I was able to pull it apart the first time, but the second time I had all the blocks put together and I just wasn’t pulling about 18 blocks. I don’t thing it turned out too bad. Not exactly what the pattern called for but, that’s what personalization is all about.
Here is what I did:
- Pulled out the bin of blue fabric.
- Ironed all the pieces up
- I thought I had mostly fat quarters, but it turns out I had more full yard or larger pieces.
- Found the “Lattice pattern” in the Fat Quarter Style.
- Cut 9″ squares out of all fabric.
- Cut 2 – 2 1/2″ strips as well (I was planning on using these pieces for another project I have on my mind)
- I had 2 Honey Buns of white – so I was set there.
- Cut the 9″ square in half diagonally
- Attached white strips to the triangles
- Attached other side of triangle to white strip
- squared up to 8 1/2″ squares
- I started connecting these blocks together to make 8 1/2″ x 16 1/2″ rectangles – this is where I made my big mistake – I connected the wrong sides, and that just starts the rest off on the wrong foot.
- Connected the large rectangles to make 16 1/2″ blocks. Then I found out that I had 18 blocks. 3×4 needs 12, 4×5 needs 20. So I had a few extra squares so I did 2 more sets up ( 8 squares ) to make up a complete set of 20 16 1/2″ blocks. This is when I noticed it was getting sort of big.
- Attached all the white between blocks
- connected the blocks into rows.
- connected the rows into one large top.
- Outlined in with the white 2 1/2″ fabric
- Here I was stuck – do I add something more or leave it end with the white. A light bulb went on – I have all those 2 1/2″ strips – why not make a boarder out of that – so I did.
- Add 2 rows of strips for the outside boarder.
- TAH DAH – the top is completed!
The scary thing is I sort of came up with the design that I want to quilt this with….that’s a project for another year – maybe 2016 will be the year of finishing these things – I think I am up to 20 unfinished quilt tops by now!!!
On to the next on!!!
