Finished Quilt

I love this pattern, and would definitely do it again. It worked up nicely. I did attempt my first time at machine quilting. I'd say it was successful, but with many flaws. I think with a little more practice, I could do it better. I did a few doll quilts this week to practice my quilting on before I did this quilt, and the doll quilts looked much nicer. I found it hard to manoeuvre the larger quilt, and got quite a few "beaks" in my quilting. I also encountered some bobbin issues for a small part of it.

The pattern was called "Star Log Cabin". Love it!! I just HAD to do the stars in yellow, to make them pop. I was going for a light and airy feel on the colours... I'm always drawn to greens and blues, and thought it would be the perfect combo for this quilt. I like how it turned out. It's a lap size quilt (baby size).



I backed it with a blue polka dot flannel:



Here is a better view of my mediocre.... poor quilting job:







I've decided to keep the quilt. I toyed with giving it away, or selling it, but I think due to the flaws, I would rather keep it for my own kids. I would say that it was for the baby, but Paisley has already tried to stake a claim on it. So I think it will be a shared household quilt.

Once I put binding on the doll quilts, I'll post those.... but that may be a while... have so many things on my to do list.

My FIRST Quilt!

I've done many rag quilts in my day..... always being afraid of doing a real quilt (rag quilts are so forgiving, and you don't have to be as precise).   Well I found some fabric I liked when I was shopping with my mom at Hamel's (if you're in the Fraser Valley, you have to go visit and spend hours in their upstairs... great deals and so many goodies), and decided I wanted to make a quilt for the living room floor for my upcoming baby.   If it spits up nearly as much as my daughter did... I'd like to protect the carpet a little!

I just did a simple pattern....  the fabric in the centre was already cut to those lengths.... I think they were pre-cut for a quilt, or samples, or something from the shop.  So I just selected the order, and then reversed the middle strip to the outer two strips.  It was easy-peasy.  I got the quilt top done in a little over the hour (I had help from a toddler on that one).   I ended up just hand tying the quilt, as I'm still a little intimidated to do the machine quilting.   I'm hoping this upcoming quilt class will show me how to do that, and get me over my fear!   I completed the tying and the binding yesterday.  I figure this quilt would have only taken maybe 3 hours if it was uninterrupted, but of course, it took me about 2 afternoons.

I'm proud of it as a first quilt, even though it's simple:

Quilt Class

I signed up for my first quilt class. It'll run the next 7 weeks on Saturdays (with homework in between). I can't wait! I chose my fabric for it yesterday, and decided it'll be a "baby" quilt, but for a friend's baby.

Here is the pattern I selected to do:

Here are the fabrics I chose:

I will use the yellow for the stars, and white for the centres as well as the frame.... I haven't chosen which colour to do the border in yet..... I want to see it starting to come together before I decide that.