First Quilt

I spent a good chunk of today putting the beginnings of this quilt together. Mom bought me a couple of bags full of scraps from The Quilted Forest in Forest City so I thought with a new table and a bunch of fabric I should make something. I started by randomly piecing the squares and rectangles together. This was made easy by the rotary cutter, mat and rulers I got for Christmas. These tools made cutting all the pieces really simple and fast. After I made 5 patchwork strips, I realized there was no way I was going to have enough fabric to make the whole quilt out of patchwork strips. Luckily, there happened to be some strips of fabric that were about the same length as the patchwork strips, so I put them between the patchwork strips to make it longer. There are now 17 strips, each 3 inches wide, making it 51 inches long. It's only about 21 inches wide, so I'm going to use whatever backing fabric I buy to make a border on the sides to make it wider. So far I think it is turning out nicely and now I just have to find some backing and decide if I'm going to use batting or flannel between the top and bottom. Flannel would be easier because then I could just tie it, but we'll see. I've got the next two weeks off from work so I should be able to finish this soon!