blocks are not my friend

After sewing all the rows, I started to piece them together. Yay! Only, somehow my perfect squares aren't all really lining up. It's not exactly terrible, but it sure isn't perfect either. I had one look really bad so I actually had to rip out two of the seams and shorten the block so that my triangle blocks would line up. Here's a shot of what it looked like before I started ripping.

I have just three more rows to attach including the top boarder. Then I need to piece and attach the side boarders. After that, it'll be done. Then I have to start piecing the back with my scraps. I have to think through exactly what I want it to look and feel like. Only 4.5 weeks until Christmas, so I have to get moving. I know I can finish it by then, but I was also hoping to complete another baby quilt by then.

I have 2 baby quilts on tap and a wedding quilt. Plus I plan on making a table runner and some place mats in the near future.

Christmas Project

Spent the whole weekend piecing this top (you can see I've only pressed the seams for about half the rows so far) this far, which is that I finished all the rows except the boarders. This was my first ever attempt at piecing triangles. I turn out not to be very good at it so far, but I do think it came out good enough considering it was a first try. I'm getting better and better at cutting squares and piecing in general. I'm trying to decide what kind of border to do. I have red Christmas fat quarters which I was going to use to put a red quilted boarder of 5x5 squares (same as the other squares). But now I'm thinking maybe I should do a non-pieced red boarded. Part of this is because I really don't want to deal with any more piecing of squares. But I really should do whatever will be the best for the design.

Also, I'm starting to contemplate what to do the to the back of the quilt. I bought a large green piece of flannel fabric. It's not big enough to be the entire back, but I have 4 fat quarters t hat are Christmas prints on blue fabric. I need to somehow cut and assemble these to make the back big enough. Hopefully I can do it in a way that's not too challenging.

I probably spent 10 hours this weekend piecing the quilt top not including having done about 3/4 of the cutting before starting the piecing process.

Quilt for Ethan

Ended up decided to give this quilt to Ethan, who is the brand new baby of one of Robert's co-workers. I did the back in a single piece of fabric. I think it turned out really nice, but the lines of the binding aren't very pretty, although I think the mitered corners turned out ok.