Yesterday I spent the holiday helping my friend sew a quilt for her soon to arrive baby girl.
The pattern was (obviously) based on one from Denyse Schmidt's book but as much as I love the look of Denyse's work the assembly instructions are way too tedious. So we cut wonky strips and sewed them together and then squared up each square. I LOVE how it's looking. Next step, quilting and binding hopefully to be done before baby is!
That is super cute!
Are those 5 rows of random strips or did you say they are assembled in squares first and then attached as rows?
Love all your projects. :)
Posted by: becca banana | February 22, 2012 at 06:12 AM
I made the blog! :) Thanks again for the wonderful day, and your patience with teaching me how to sew and quilt. I love the quilt and know the baby will too.
Posted by: Lisa | February 22, 2012 at 08:24 AM
It's beautiful!
Posted by: Amy Cluck | February 22, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Love it, Melissa. I'm not much for tedious instructions, either!
Posted by: Lauren | February 22, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Hi Becca,
We did create the quilt in squares (I think they were 11 inches each each but she was doing all the work so Ive already forgotten). Looking at it yes, we could have done 5 long strips and it would have wasted less fabric but it would have been a lot harder to keep it all straight and even. If I was doing it again Id probably do squares again. it was 4 squares wide by 5 tall so 20 blocks.
Melissa
Posted by: Melissa Haworth | February 22, 2012 at 01:59 PM