You may remember that back in January I wrote about my Quilting Adventures that I was enjoying and Showed you My First Ever Quilt! Since then I have been planning my next little quilt and drooling over fabrics!
This time I will be quilting for my ten year old son, who decided he's like a snuggly quilt too!
I went for Neptune by Tula Pink as it has wonderful sea related designs in yummy shades of blue and greens (and just a teeny bit of salmon pink!). I bought the Layer Cake which consists on 40, 10" x 10" squares- I figured I'd used the 10" squares pretty much whole to show of the wonderful fabric, this would also make it very quick to make up the top piece of the quilt!
So I began by selecting 2 10" squares of green and 2 squares of blue- I sewed them together to make a 2 by 2 square:
I took a dark blue 10" square and ironed some vilene on the back to stop fraying.
I then used a zig-zag stitch on my sewing machine to applique this square onto my 2x2 section- I decided to place it on the diagonal!
I made 4 for these sections in total.
Next I created the central section of my quilt:
This consisted of 4 10" squares of dark blue sewn together which were bordered with white fabric (2" x 40") inter spaced with 2" x 10" sections of green fabric sewn together in a long length.
Finally I pieced the sections together to give me:
Please excuse the creases- It was ironed but was sat on just before I photographed it!!!
Currently I am adding a centre band to the back piece of the quilt! After that it will be the pinning together with the wadding- hopefully it will be a little less faffy that last time- as I had some great advice from other quilters!
Until next time!
Love GlitteryKatie XxXxX
This is gorgeous KT! I'd like mine in lilac and green please LOL!
Posted by: jo willis | March 07, 2010 at 09:47 PM