I was able to get the quilt mailed off this afternoon and it should be there in a few days. After a rocky weekend I am crossing my fingers it gets there in time. I am fairly happy with how it turned out. It's definitely the largest quilt I've ever made (not sure of the dimensions of a hospital bed- but this quilt was made to fit a twin with a little extra room.)
So first off all, quilts of this size….not so easy to photograph. At all. I sort of hung it off the patio in the backyard so you are missing the top of it, but it's the same as the bottom so you aren't missing much.
For those of you who asked: the fabrics were a combination of mainly Amy Butler & Heather Bailey. The binding (yellow) was from Joann, so was the small border (next to the binding- the blue, white & brown.) I really like the idea of doing a log cabin design because it allows you a lot of freedom with fabrics & colors but the design sort of pulls it all together. Organized chaos I guess you could say. So instead of doing individual blocks with log cabins, I decided to start the quilt with one giant log cabin design. Aside from starting in the middle and building out- I'm not sure if I'm missing some fundamental part of making a log cabin design (all you experienced quilt makers can correct me here.) The fabrics (there were about 13 different ones- I had about 1/4 yard of each) were cut into 5" strips. I started in the middle and built it out until I didn't have enough of the strips left to go around. At that point, I cut down the remaining pieces and sewed them together. Just outside of the log cabin is a patchwork of all the fabrics (you can see it going around the log cabin design.) The quilt was getting bigger, it just wasn't quite wide enough. I then cut about a 3" strip of fabric (this is the pink, white & green at the top of the picture) put a few pieces of the stripe (which I love- I think it's Heather Bailey) in there and sewed that around the patchwork binding. At this point, it was almost wide enough. To make it longer I cut 4 pieces, which were the width of the quilt (the yellow and rose print at the bottom of the picture) that were about 7" in length, sewed those to the top & bottom, put on a border to go around all of that (which was initially about 5" but disaster ensued and it had to be cut down to about 2" …ahhh!) and then finished it off with the yellow binding. Oh I quilted it by stitching in the ditch. I finally broke down and bought a walking foot (that thing is INTENSE) for my machine (maybe I've mentioned that before…I can't remember) anywho-it has been an absolute life saver.
The back was a simple pink & white polka dot (fabric from Joann.) It's really prompted me to get going on a quilt for Henry's bed which is long overdue. And I want to cover my lampshades with fabric. Have you ever done this? If you have, give me your lampshade covering advice!
xoxo
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