Quilt!

Yes it’s true, I’ve finally made my first ‘real’ big quilt 🙂 And I’ve only procrastinated about this for, what, two years? Heh! Don’t know why it took me so long to start on this. I think I had what I’d like to call “First Big Project Paralysis Syndrome”. I distinctly remember going through the same thing before I made my first knitted cardigan. (I umm-ed and ahh-ed over what pattern to use, then took even longer deciding on the yarn, and then changed my mind about the pattern again at least two dozen times.) With this quilt I also umm-ed and ahh-ed over the pattern, changed my mind dozens of times, before deciding that I just like the unstructured look of scrappy quilts, like this and this. And of course after that I changed my mind dozens of times more about the fabrics that I wanted to use.

But finally, here’s what I came up with. It’s not very big, about 44 x 55 inches, but enough to cover Annette’s bed. Here’s the front, a mix of some favourite japanese fabrics from the stash (so yeah, not really ‘scraps’ 🙂 ), some Heather Ross, and some Denyse.

And on the back, red and white seersucker, with that skipping girl print from sproutdesign, and the black on charcoal polka dots fabric (also featured on my Mail Sack) which was an op shop find.

And look, even with binding.

The binding was a LOT of work! Annette kept asking me “Is my quilt ready yet, Mummy??” and I kept saying it’s almost ready, I just had the binding left to do. Well, four days later, I was still stitching the binding… Obviously I am very slow. But I have to say that it’s worth it, the binding really add a special touch, I think. Especially when I step back and take it all in, thinking, wow, I made this! I’m pleased as punch.

And here’s a happy little girl who loves this quilt just like I do. The night I finished the binding, I sneaked in to her room and covered her with the newly finished quilt. You should see her excitement when she woke up in the morning! Definitely worth it.