I’m Making a Quilt

I’ve pretty much always loved quilts. I mean, bedspreads are ok, but quilts are superior. Am I right? Especially those old handmade quilts that weigh about 25 pounds and feel like the lead blanket you have to wear for x-rays at the dentists office. And I always thought someday I’d like to attempt to make a quilt, but I figured that would be 20 years from now when I had an empty nest. Then I ran across this online quilt-a-long (which started in January, but never you mind that) where you create an easy throw-sized quilt over the course of six weeks.

I thought to myself – now I could handle that. A reasonably-sized quilt with a beginners pattern broken down in to six steps. However, I knew if I attempted this on my own the quilt wouldn’t be finished until 2012, so I recruited my friends Brittany and Amy to quilt-a-long with me, and there you have it. Week 1 assignment: Purchase and prepare (wash, dry, iron) the fabrics. Easy enough, right? Well, mostly. I actually went and bought my fabrics Monday evening so I could give my full attention to helping Brittany choose her fabrics this evening (at her request).

We’ll see how this all goes down. I am by no means an expert at sewing, and have never quilted so much as a pincushion before. (Do you even quilt pincushions?) But I figure if I’m ever going to make a quilt, I have to start with something.

Here is my color scheme.The blues/greens are for the tops, the cream for the back and that crazy orange for the binding (border). I’ll be posting my weekly progress, and hopefully by the middle of May I’ll have a finished quilt to cuddle up with. Just in time for summer.