Last year I decided I wanted to use my new sewing machine to make a quilt so i went out and bought some fabrics I liked. Then I went home to figure out a pattern I would use and decided to keep it simple for my first attempt and went with triangles arranged into rows and columns of squares. After several months of working one week, then stopping for a month, I decided the quilt would be small and would make a good gift for my niece Leili, so I wanted to finish it for her birthday, which was April 15th. Unfortunately I didn't come close to finishing in time but I knew she would be visiting me in June so I figured I could give it to her then (which is actually now). I finally finished the top side of the quilt and then had to learn how the heck you finish a quilt. So I turned to the good old internet and learned all about batting, basting, and binding (I didn't even mean for that to sound like a cute catch phrase). Then I fought with stupid clear thread, which I never want to look at again btw, doing the actual quilting and sewed the binding around the outer edges. I figured the edges would be easy but then I got to the corners and faced another problem because they didn't fit together as easily as I hoped they would, so I had to make new corner pieces separately and then sew them on over the other corners.
All in all it took me about 10 months (with several multi-month breaks) to finish, and none too soon because I finished at about 1am the night before they got there, but here it is:
Next time I'll try to make a bigger one now that I know some of the basics, I hope Leili gets a lot of use out of hers!
3 comments:
It turned out beautifully! You should be proud of it. :-)
It is really beautiful Cathy and it will be a very special quilt for Leili. Thanks for putting so much hard work into it. This is motivating me to finish the quilt I started years ago.
Wow I am very impressed with your handy work!
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