Tuesday, April 8, 2008

My first quilt.

So, I want to make this quilt this summer, and I thought it'd be a great idea to try out this whole quilt thing on a smaller project. I got one of those quilt bundles at JoAnn's that make a little 30"x36" quilt for children. I thought I could give it to my friend Nicole, who had a baby last August (I'm only a little late). In theory, I think making a quilt will be easy. I only ran into a few problems making this, and most involved the dark brown plush material, which was extra stretchy. So, some of my measurements are off, and not all of the squares are perfectly square. Also, my sewing "in-the-ditch" between the center panel and border didn't end very nicely on the back (of course, I'm not going to show you!). All in all, I think this project was a success (according to the cat, at least), and hopefully, it won't fall apart the first time she washes it!

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1 comment:

Stef said...

Very nice! Stitch-in-the-ditch is used on sewing collars on to shirts and mine never come out right.