my first quilt ever
Back in January, I started a quilt. I looked online at various quilts I liked, planned, and drew out the layout of all the squares with careful colour coordination. I started cutting. I cut about 120 squares. I put them together - first in pairs, then in squares of four.
Then, I got busy. Over the next eight months, I've had time to put some of the four-squares together, but that's it. I had a load of excuses, but as of last week - no more!
Now I have all the squares sewn together (so what if not all of them line up perfectly? That just adds charm!) and am working on choosing the border. I have a nice purple stripe planned (as pictured), but I think it needs something else... maybe a white or cream? A nice dark blue? I wouldn't mind putting a lot of stripes around the centre part... the quilt ended up being smaller than I anticipated (even though I planned it as a lap quilt, it was frustrating to have done so much work and to end up with something so small!). Comments and suggestions welcome!
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That quilt is lovely! Impressive, especially for a first attempt. I wouldn't have the patience to do all that planning. Also, the two albums in your column (Herman dune and Sunset Rubdown) are two of my absolute favorite albums!
The quilt looks wonderful! You're so organized, with the chart and everything, too. I think the stripeys as a thin inner border would be nice - it'd make it a bit bigger and would be a cute accent. Then again, I like the plain purple as is, too. How big is it?
Yeah, I like the purple too, but I can imagine thin stripes would be nice--but a lot more work! Yeah, how big is it? It's hard to tell from the photo.