Hooray! I finished my first quilt today! I worked hard the last couple of days to finish this off and it is sort of a bitter sweet achievement. Sweet because it's cool that I made a quilt, but bitter because it's done and now I have to wait until I get paid (not till the end of February!) to start a new project. Anyway, these are the things I had to do to finish the quilt since my last post. The first thing I had to do was finish drawing all the quilting lines -- that took a very long time and unfortunately, by the time I was done sewing the quilting lines in one direction, the lines in the other direction were extremely faint and hard to follow. I think they got rubbed off from being handled so much. I didn't redraw them, but lesson learned -- I'll remember that for the next quilt. The machine quilting took about a day total. I worked on it some yesterday and finished it today. I can see why most people don't do this with a regular machine. It wasn't that hard, but it was tedious and for a quilt this big, it was hard to keep all the lines straight. However, overall I think the lines turned out fairly straight and evenly spaced. There are a few spots that are wide, crooked or bunched, but for a first quilt, I was pleased and would machine quilt again. Once all the machine quilting was finished, I trimmed the leftover batting and backing on the edges. Then I pinned and sewed on the bias tape. This is what I ended up with:
I really like how it turned out! I'd like to give it a wash to break it in a little bit, but am too afraid. I don't want to shrink it or anything. And I didn't pre-wash any of the fabrics because most of it was scrap pieces and the navy and backing were such big pieces of fabric I didn't want to deal with trying to iron them once they came out of the dryer. I may regret that I didn't pre-wash the fabric, but I'm sure I'll find out eventually.
I realized you haven't seen the backing yet. I couldn't get enough of the navy pindot fabric that is on the front, so I went with a different navy fabric that was in the same collection. It's called marbles -- kinda crazy, but I think it makes it fun. This is what it looks like:
Well, there it is. My first quilt. I'm definitely happy with it! It even looks good on the back of the couch :)
2 comments:
Looks awesome! The biggest question, though, is: How warm is it?
Wow - You are an acheiver! Always have been! :) Looks really good! Maybe for your next project you hold try block quilting and then put it together??? Read up on it and see what ya think!
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