A quilt in time
I love a good quilt. I also seem to have this habit of collecting scraps of material and random bits when they are on sale - so what better way to use them all up than with a little quilt for the baby.
My mum is a fantastic seamstress - very precise and accurate. I don't have that level of patience, so even though I try and do my prep - measure twice, cut once and all that jazz, there comes a point when I just want to get on with it. Which is how we end up with wonky pieces and end results that I'm not always prepared for.
I very diligently measured out strips of fabric from three different cotton prints to cut up into squares - part way through I thought let's do triangles to give a bit more interest to the finished quilt. This is where my measuring didn't really add up.
I wanted the quilt to be small person sized, so was going for rough dimensions of 40x40 inches. Working on four rows of 10"x10" squares that I then folded in half to cut down.
Must remember, using a ruler instead of a tape measure is much more productive when wanting squares.
Once I had a load of triangles cut out - I don't know how many - I started to arrange them on the floor to get a pattern I liked. I liked the idea of it being random and not too structured - but the triangles were a bit too big for this to look good, so I started to play with patterns.
Ripley Dog is being very helpful laying out pieces and not walking on them at all!
The end result is not 40 X 40 but 24"x24"!! I do have some spare pieces, mostly in the lighter blue colour, but was happy with this result (and was getting impatient) so began to sew.
Wonky squares - I'm just going to go with it - it's wonky but I like it!
I had some wadding lying around so cut a square to match, using a little spray glue attached this to the back of the patchwork piece.
A lovely soft brown cotton that was also in the bottom of the material box serves as a back piece.
As a final touch I stitched in a few lines along the seams to give the blanket strength and to help the padding from slipping with use.
Although it's for the baby, it's not actually left our sofa yet - under the pretence it would be good to have it smell like us for the baby.
I just think Luis likes snuggling with it - and I've definitely seen a few dogo hairs on it after we've been out and someone has snuck onto the sofa.
My mum is a fantastic seamstress - very precise and accurate. I don't have that level of patience, so even though I try and do my prep - measure twice, cut once and all that jazz, there comes a point when I just want to get on with it. Which is how we end up with wonky pieces and end results that I'm not always prepared for.
I wanted the quilt to be small person sized, so was going for rough dimensions of 40x40 inches. Working on four rows of 10"x10" squares that I then folded in half to cut down.
Must remember, using a ruler instead of a tape measure is much more productive when wanting squares.
Once I had a load of triangles cut out - I don't know how many - I started to arrange them on the floor to get a pattern I liked. I liked the idea of it being random and not too structured - but the triangles were a bit too big for this to look good, so I started to play with patterns.
Ripley Dog is being very helpful laying out pieces and not walking on them at all!
The end result is not 40 X 40 but 24"x24"!! I do have some spare pieces, mostly in the lighter blue colour, but was happy with this result (and was getting impatient) so began to sew.
Wonky squares - I'm just going to go with it - it's wonky but I like it!
I had some wadding lying around so cut a square to match, using a little spray glue attached this to the back of the patchwork piece.
A lovely soft brown cotton that was also in the bottom of the material box serves as a back piece.
As a final touch I stitched in a few lines along the seams to give the blanket strength and to help the padding from slipping with use.
Although it's for the baby, it's not actually left our sofa yet - under the pretence it would be good to have it smell like us for the baby.
I just think Luis likes snuggling with it - and I've definitely seen a few dogo hairs on it after we've been out and someone has snuck onto the sofa.
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