courtney rebecca

I have made some serious progress on Jason's quilt. But as I was working on it (for SEVEN hours today) I realized that maybe it was a big ambitious of me to attempt a twin size quilt for my second quilt ever. Yikes. I really love choosing a pattern, choosing fabric, cutting out the pieces, and piecing together the front and the back. And then we get to making the quilt sandwich. Ugh. This is the worst part. I need to do some reading about how to make this part not suck, because it makes me feel absolutely crazy! To make the quilt sandwich, you need a space big enough on the floor to lay the whole quilt out. Preferably on a hard surface, or when you start pinning, you'll pin the quilt to your carpet. We only have hard flooring in our kitchen & dining room, so Jason helped me move the table, then clean the floor really well so I could lay the quilt down. You lay the back down first, right side down. Then the batting. This time I used Warm & Natural cotton batting, a...

Today I... Took Kingsley to the vet Went grocery shopping Made pancakes for lunch Made an entire twin size quilt top. So the vet took 30 minutes. Grocery shopping took 45 minutes. Making pancakes took 15 minutes. Making an entire quilt top? Well, that took 4 episodes of Jericho (42 minutes each), plus 2.5 hours of Pandora listening. And there were 2 episodes of Jericho spent on it last week cutting out pieces for the top. Wow. I just felt like once I started though, I wanted to work until the end! It's such a pain to put everything away in pieces, and it's always hard to remember how everything fit together... Tomorrow I think I'll start working on the back, then I can sandwich and quilt it next weekend! It's going to be a twin size quilt for Jason to have as a throw blanket. I don't have a picture of the quilt top yet, but here are the fabrics I used. I love them! The plaid and two solids are from Michael Miller  and the stars are from Zoe Pearn ....