So fast forward to now... Merry Christmas! My loving husbers celebrated his new job with a new laptop for yours truly! My computing is no longer tied to my desktop all the way upstairs and away from the quilty madness. Woot!
I started quilting back in May and have completed three quilts and one quilt top since then. I'll post some (crappy) pics of each over the course of my next few posts along with this big lessons learned along the way.
Here - the first: a baby quilt I finished in July for a friend of mine, Gayle. She had a girl and while the colours on this are quite boyish, it matches the jungle-themed nursery perfectly.
I started with the zoo print (Robert Kaufman) and added blue, yellow, green, white and black fabrics to coordinate. The back is a solid turquoise (greener than this picture indicates) with a couple of scrappy strips. I used clear nylon thread to quilt this... I sewed about 1/8th of an inch inside each full square. The pattern is a standard disappearing nine-patch.
The binding is my favourite part - scrappy and fun.
Overall I'm still quite please with this one - though admittedly it's rough around some of the edges. In retrospect, though, I would have switched out some of the fabrics - in particular the white and black florals - and maybe the yellow and turquoise dumb-dot.
Lessons learned:
1) Quilting is a passion.
2) Don't piece with black thread. lol :)
3) If you're going to pin baste... use a lot of pins.
Sorry for the crappy pictures. I'm no photographer and all we have is an inexpensive - albeit pretty decent - point and shoot camera and we have fairly terribly lighting in my house.
The quilt was very well-received by a very good friend. She was touched that I chose to give my first completed quilt to her. And her little baby is a doll. :)
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