I could....I should...

I spent the whole summer playing the I  COULD..I SHOULD game. Have you ever played?  It's where you spend your day at the computer looking at all the cool stuff everyone else is doing and thinking---I could do something...I should do something...I would do something..only I didn't. I just spent my summer enjoying everyone else's creativity.

But there is something about this time of year that energizes me with new creativity. I seem to make more resolutions this time of year. Maybe it's because  school is starting a new year. It's also my birthday and that is the beginning of a new year for me. Anyway, I decided to get doing.

I started on a quilt from a tutorial I found here from The Missouri Quilt Company, one of the places I spent many, many days playing the afore mentioned game.

Here are the completed blocks laid out---

I used a jelly roll from Riley Blake's Sweet Nothings line and a Moda Basic White jelly roll.

I LOVE my pre-cuts.

I've got the blocks all sewn into rows and now I'm working on sewing the rows together. Matching those points is not easy for me but I'm using it as a learning process.

Thank-you to all the wonderful bloggers I follow for your inspiration.

Blessings-

Megan

The Quilt is Finished!!!

After procrastinating for a few weeks, worried that it would be "too hard", I finally just did it!

I laid out and taped the backing to the floor--

I spread out the batting--

I laid out the quilt top over the backing and batting-

And I pinned it all together--

I machine quilted it-

And here IT is finished---

The front--

And the back--

Although it's not perfect--it is my "1st Quilt Ever"--I'm happy with it.

I LOVE the colors

and most importantly

I learned alot!

I've already started on another quilt!!!

The Quilt--the work continues---

I've been working on getting my quilt pieces together

I've finished the quilt top-

I wasn't sure I was going to like it but once it was all sewn together I like it alot-

This isn't really a very good picture but the colors of the blocks and the border really make me think of fall.

This is the fabric and the pieced strip for the back. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this fabric. I might have to go back to JoAnn's and buy some more.

This is the binding--all 240" of it!

I still need to sew the pieced strip to the backing--

After reading Care's last post about putting the quilt together I'm starting to get worried.

I've come this far--
Hope I will be able to make it to the finish line--

The Quilt----

The work on the quilt continues---

Putting together the 17" squares---

Sorry--Care--I had to pin--

I forgot to take a picture of the 17" squares sewin together--but this is the layout that I did--

Next I cut the 17" squares into 4  8.5" squares

Then laid them out in the Disappearing Nine Patch Pattern---

I was too "structered" when I sewed the squares together which it made it more difficult to lay them out without like fabrics touching--next time I will be more random.

Now the rows are stacked, marked and ready for the next step--

I am hoping the 1/4" presser foot I ordered will be here today--I need to get the rows sewed together and the seam markings on my machine are pathetic. It was hard to keep the seam straight. I hope to be working on this tonight.

Quilt beginnings

The squares are cut and I'm ready to start sewing--

I've sewn my 2 squares together using the chain-piece method---

Here are the 3 sets of two squares--

Now to sew the third square--

Here's how the nine-patch pieces will look--

All stacked and ready for the next step--

As you can see I'm making a quilt for fall

That gives me plenty of time to get it done--