7 one quarter yard cuts of print fabrics
1 1/4 yds white fabric
1/2 yd binding fabric
1 1/3 yd backing fabric
warm and natural batting
As I said in the previous post, I worked diagonally down this quilt, first sewing the squares together into strips and then sewing the strips together. Sounds easy (and it is), but I learned a lot doing this. Especially that I need to work on my 1/4 inch seams! How can something so simple torment me so? The seam ripper and I became fast friends. Stitching the first 4 strips together was going ok, but then all the sudden my seams weren't lining up and I could see it getting worse as I progressed. I started using a straight edge to make sure that the lines were staying (relatively) straight. So, the quilt top isn't exactly the way I would like, but as long as I learned something I am good with it.
The other thing I highly, highly recommend is keeping the iron at your side. Press, press, press all the seams as you sew them, but being careful not to distort the shape of the project. Press the seams in alternating directions (square to square AND strip to strip). Misting the fabric lightly seemed to really help with the pressing.
Here is the quilt top after sewing all the strips together.
The next thing I did was trim all the sides of the quilt top. The final size of the quilt top is about 46"x46". I'm not sure if this is a good crib quilt size. I need to look that up sometime.
For the backing, I cut a 50", WOF piece of the pink fabric. Because it is only 44" wide, I needed to add a strip of about 3" wide pieced fabrics. (This is where I used the leftover strips from when I cut the 5.5" squares.) I cut the backing width-wise (it doesn't really matter where) and attached the strip. Here is the finished backing.
So, now I'm ready to assemble the quilt...too bad I didn't realize that I was out of batting. Guess I'm due another trip to JoAnn's. :)
1 comment:
Wow! I am impressed. It is beautiful!
-Rene
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