First completed quilt - learning experience
I've purchases some beautiful jelly rolls from M* - this is not one of them. 
Since I am new to quilting I decided to get a cheaper jelly roll from Walmart to try out this method before messing up any of those.
I was pretty happy with the way it turned out - except that it was much wider than it was long. I realized when I folded it in half to take a picture, that it would actually make two good size quilts for my year old twin grand-nieces so, here is Brooklyn's - completely done.
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Sorry the picture is so blurry. It looked great on my phone. I attempted a few new (to me) tricks on these quilts, including a pieced backing with applique of their names. Stitching around those letters was not fun. Their names are so long - I didn't want to stitch it by hand (plus my hand sewing is awful) but trying to make all those curves on the machine was ...a little annoying.
I just stitched in the ditch, and the quilting is...not good - but they are babies and their mom doesn't know anything about quilting so I don't care that much. I had a very hard time stopping and starting, and I know you're not suppose to but...I backstitched..
All of my stitching is with white thread, which does not in any way hide any awful quilting, especially on the back, hahaha - but it's a first try!! I want to improve, but I'm not going to drive myself crazy over these two.
I machine sewed the binding on one side, but then I felt like I wanted to try hand sewing it to complete it. What was I thinking? LOL - actually, I think I could see how sewing can be relaxing and fun, but I will probably stick to smaller projects like mug rugs. It took ALL day Saturday and I didn't get to start the second one. I guess I'll work on Adriana's a little bit at a time this week, while I'm watching tv. Then I will actually have two quilts completed!
Anyway - thanks for looking!
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Adriana's - with just the binding left to complete.
Since I am new to quilting I decided to get a cheaper jelly roll from Walmart to try out this method before messing up any of those.I was pretty happy with the way it turned out - except that it was much wider than it was long. I realized when I folded it in half to take a picture, that it would actually make two good size quilts for my year old twin grand-nieces so, here is Brooklyn's - completely done.
479.jpg 480.jpg
Sorry the picture is so blurry. It looked great on my phone. I attempted a few new (to me) tricks on these quilts, including a pieced backing with applique of their names. Stitching around those letters was not fun. Their names are so long - I didn't want to stitch it by hand (plus my hand sewing is awful) but trying to make all those curves on the machine was ...a little annoying.
I just stitched in the ditch, and the quilting is...not good - but they are babies and their mom doesn't know anything about quilting so I don't care that much. I had a very hard time stopping and starting, and I know you're not suppose to but...I backstitched..
All of my stitching is with white thread, which does not in any way hide any awful quilting, especially on the back, hahaha - but it's a first try!! I want to improve, but I'm not going to drive myself crazy over these two.
I machine sewed the binding on one side, but then I felt like I wanted to try hand sewing it to complete it. What was I thinking? LOL - actually, I think I could see how sewing can be relaxing and fun, but I will probably stick to smaller projects like mug rugs. It took ALL day Saturday and I didn't get to start the second one. I guess I'll work on Adriana's a little bit at a time this week, while I'm watching tv. Then I will actually have two quilts completed!
Anyway - thanks for looking!
481.jpg 482.jpg
Adriana's - with just the binding left to complete.
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