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Only one more piece of fabric to cut! I’m very excited about working on this quilt and I’ve been trying to set aside time each day to make some progress.

Here’s what I worked on last night while waiting for my husband to finish a late shift:

And here’s what I completed this afternoon:

I only have one more color to cut and then I can start sewing! I’m so excited! I know I’ve caught the bug when I’m already thinking about what my next project will be… My mom and I need to keep working on our Hazel’s Diary quilt and I need to continue working on the quilt for my grandparents. My goal is to have it shipped up to Wyoming by Christmas.

I was optimistic in thinking that I’d get to start sewing blocks for my new quilt early this week! It seems my time tables are usually optimistic and that I need to allow more time to complete things. Either that, or I need to seriously curtail my internet time… Hmmm.

Here are the strips I cut yesterday. The picture didn’t quite capture the color, but I think it’s a wonderful shade of pink. I wish I had bought extra to use in a later quilt that I’ll be keeping!

I think I’ll take my own advice and get off the internet, as I still have some studying to do. Maybe later I’ll have time to cut the next piece of fabric into strips. Only three colors left to go until I can start sewing. I can’t wait!

One of the side benefits of my new schedule is that I’ve been working on my Double 9 Patch quilt quite a bit. I haven’t done any sewing yet. There is a lot of cutting to do first.

Yesterday –

Today –

I’ve cut strips in three different fabrics and have four more fabrics to go. I should be able to start sewing by early next week!

Due to hubby’s insistence and the encouragement of friends, I made time this afternoon to work on my quilting. When I finished my first quilt, I made a commitment to complete another quilt for the church’s women ministries charity program. I am temporarily setting aside my grandfather’s quilt as his birthday is not until December.

The church gave me two colors of fabric to start with but I wanted to have most of my fabric in hand before starting. The last quilt was a challenge because we were planning out the design as I was putting the blocks together. That type of on-the-fly planning is totally against my nature. So last night, hubby and I went to Joann’s and picked out a few more fabrics. The two purple fabrics in the foreground are the ones the church provided and those in the back are the ones we picked out last night.

I decided I wanted to do something a little more complicated than my first quilt so a friend suggested I try a Double 9 Patch block. Searching around the internet I found these instructions for a 12 inch quilt block, which is exactly what I need to reach the 49″ x 60″ measurements the church wants. Until I sat down to work out all the math, I had no idea how small the squares would be or how many I would have to cut out.

So far I’ve cut out 46 squares that are 1 7/8″ each. According to my calculations, I need 160 lavender squares total so I have a lot more squares to cut out tomorrow.

This quilt is my inspiration so I’m excited to see how my quilt will turn out.

I made some progress on my grandparents’ quilt.

First I laid out all the squares I had cut yesterday. I must have looked really funny, kneeling on the floor and moving fabric around. After a bit of shuffling, I was satisfied with how the squares would look.

Then I sewed the top two squares together and the bottom two squares together. Unfortunately, my back started hurting toward the end, so I wasn’t able to sew all four squares together. Oh well! I ironed all my seams and then put everything away.

Hubby will be working almost all day on Sunday so I will probably finish sewing the squares together that afternoon. Then I’ll start cutting fabric to start the next step!

I like most of the fabric I chose for this project. I bought two fat quarter sets so I wasn’t able to pick out each print individually. But I still think the color combinations will look really warm when the quilt is complete. As much as I like this quilt so far, I can’t wait to start my next when I actually get to keep it!

I finally finished my first quilt!! Now I can take it to church on Sabbath and drop it off. I procrastinated way too long on finishing it but I am happy to say that it is finally complete.

This quilt was a huge learning experience. I’ve never sewn my own clothes or worked on a quilt. I barely know how to crochet. The only handiwork I’ve completed is cross-stitching. This was very different. Putting the blocks together was the easy part. Getting all the blocks to line up on the quilt and have the dimensions come out correctly was difficult. Tying the whole thing together wasn’t hard, but sewing around the border and sewing the quilt shut was a huge challenge. For some reason, my blocks shifted while working on the border and everything tilts down to the left.

I am a perfectionist (to a fault) and it’s hard to see so many mistakes. However, the ladies at church told me I was doing a wonderful job for my first attempt. The next one will be better!

The photo above shows the fabrics my mom and I chose for Hazel’s mystery quilt. We start on Sunday. I can’t wait!