To Do:

I bought this fabric a couple months ago, intending to make a quilt for our bed.... I KNEW it was going to be too girly for the husbands taste, but hoped that somehow I could get away with it. Not a chance. So it's been sitting in a bag ever since I brought it home, and I can't decide what I'm going to do with it.

Quilty Stuff

I said before that I was making my first "real quilt," which meant that it wouldnt not be made out of denim, and would be more complicated than sewing a bunch of squares together.

While making a quilt out of diamonds happens to be very similar to sewing together hundreds of square pieces of fabric... it was indeed more complicated.

I quickly learned that I couldn't just line up the edges and sew them together. When I tried it, my diamonds ended up offset, the long edges of the chain of diamonds didn't match up. In order to get them to line up straight, I had to offset the diamonds when I sewed them into strips. I realize I could have made this step easier by strategically snipping off the points in just the right place, however, after cutting all those diamonds, I didn't want to go back and trim them up, and the points actually proved to be helpful when sewing my strips together.

I ironed the seams toward the gray fabric, and the points poked out like so.

I figured out that if I matched the corners up....

And pinned them together before I sewed the strips, the intersections on my diamonds matched up and looked so much cleaner. And it was much quicker than the guess and check (and then pick out a whole row) method I was using before.

I'm sure anyone with more sense than me would have done some reasearch or consulted an expert for advice. I, on the other hand, tend to do things the difficult way and just figure it out myself. Think I'll ever learn?

Quilting Endeavors

So the quilt top is finished (I couldn't get my picture to turn right-side-up). Actually, the back is also finished, and I've begun to quilt it. That part... not going so hot. We'll see how it turns out....

In Progress

What you see here are the beginnings of my very first legitimate quilt (meaning it's more complicated than a bunch of denim squares strung together... but not much). It's been interesting so far.

The top is almost finished and I like the way it's looking. However, I have a feeling that when it comes time to pick fabric for the back and do the actual quilting and binding, this lovely little project will end up stashed somewhere in the top of my closet until I get the guts to make such a permanent decision. It's the story of my life, really.