Cheater cheater

I’m on a sewing kick at the moment. My poor, poor sewing machine had been neglected for so long. It’s been calling to me again this week. I think it started when a friend had a baby, and I thought I’d make her a pram blanket. I liked the super quick + easy baby quilt from the Last-Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts book, but I ended up making a rather modified version of it. The size is a lot smaller, which is pram-sized (this one measures about 20 x 20 inches) rather than cot-sized.

This was indeed a quick project. I feel like I was cheating in so many ways. Firstly I didn’t do any binding, and secondly the fabric has done all the work for me with that faux patchwork 🙂 (Found it at Spotlight, if anyone’s wondering. The backing is a polar fleece that I also got from Spotlight.) But hey, I’ve been wanting to make a quilt for so long (what was it, oh, two years ago that I first fell in love with quilts and patchwork — which was one of the things that pulled me into sewing in the first place), but as we all know Procrastination is my middle name. So I see this as “baby steps” toward getting closer to making a “real” quilt of my own 🙂