Look at what I'm working on now!
My awesome friends and I started this quilt when I turned 30. In six weeks I will be 32...so....I thought maybe I'd try and finish it before I turn 35.
I never had a plan to begin with when I started this project, which is why it is taking me so long to finish. I had my friends draw pictures for me with crayons on sandpaper then I iron transferred the pictures onto fabric. My intention was to then make each picture into a quilt block, then quilt it together for a cute little wall hanging.
A few problems occurred.
I was a BEGINNER in regards to quilting, so I planned on just framing each square with a single fabric to make each block 10 x 10 inches. I was trying to make them all the same size but I didn't calculate the piece sizes correctly and I used a layer cake so I had a limited amount of fabric... each time I messed it up I got more and more frustrated...yada yada yada....basically I ended up with 8.5 x 8.5 inch squares and 9 x 10 inch rectangles. Nice, right? I tested out of math in college and had to teach myself basic calculus last year but I could not figure out how to cut fabric with seam allowances.
So the blocks sat unfinished as I took on other quilting projects and learned a lot about piecing together quilts.
This week I sat down with the blocks every day and just kind of stared at them for a while and let my brain boil it over in the back of my mind while I did other things (like, you know, work at my job). When that "aha!" moment I was waiting for didn't happen, I pulled out a block and just started putting pieces together. Amazingly, it worked out, so I took on a whole new attitude about the birthday quilt.
Each drawing is different and special just like each of my friends, so I am going to make each quilt block different and special......whatever it takes to make each block 9 x 10 inches.
Looks like it's going to be pretty awesome.
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