Quilting 101

This may be the biggest project I've ever attempted.

Me - the one who does NOT sew - I've decided to take up quilting! Yeah...almost as strange as me wearing a dress.

It started out with repairing a quilt I used when I was little. A lot of the squares had came off so I cut, folded, pieced & sewed new patches on to fix it.

The picture above shows some of the missing squares.








It took a little bit to get the hang of it & the 1st patch took about 2 hours, but eventually things started moving on along...

I had thought that this wouldn't be too much of a project. After all, how hard could just patching up an old quilt be?

If it would have just been one or two squares missing, it wouldn't have been that much to it. However, there were A LOT of squares missing.

I had definitely underestimated this little project!










Every now & then I even suprise myself.

Amazingly, I actually finished this! It took me about a week & a half.

I replaced/repaired the following patches:
* The blue squares that go all the way around.
* The yellow squares inside the blue on the top & bottom
*The green squares on the inside of the blue on the left side of the picture
* The pink squares inside the blue on the right side
* A few navy blue gingham checked squares scattered out randomly



It wasn't as bad as I had originally thought...you know - the whole sewing thing. Now that I'm done with repairing that one, I'm on to even more gigantic projects:

Making my own quilts!