Monthly archives: June 2010

Here’s a picture of the quilt sandwich ready to be pinned. For the last two quilts I’ve used a combination of spray basting and safety pins, and it works really well to keep the layers together, and the spray basting really prevents any bunching or folding which will screw up the quilting later.

For the quilting, I just did diagonal lines across the squares in a green thread I found in my supply box. I was worried that this wouldn’t be enough quilting to keep everything secure, but I didn’t have to repair anything after it came out of the dryer.

I finished all the quilting Friday, and the binding Friday night and all day Saturday, but it was too rainy to take any photos until recently.

The back turned out really well, and I’m glad I used the leftover jelly roll pieces for the stripe.

This quilt now lives on the back of the couch, and has been used alot for watching tv and movies. The only real problem is that it isn’t big enough for both of us to use, so now I’ll have to finish the quilt I started for Russ.

When I first saw the Neptune fabric collection by Tula Pink, I knew I had to have it. Unfortunately for me, it has been discontinued. I did alot of searching online, and it was really hard to track down any kind of set, and I even ordered a jelly roll and some backing fabric from a site, only to find out they didn’t carry any of it anymore. They sent me an email saying they were cancelling my order, because they were out of the jelly roll, and when I went back to the site all of that collection had been taken down. Boo. I ended up finding both a jelly roll and a charm pack from Everything quilts, so I ordered one of each. I dont have any in progress pictures of the blocks, because I started working on it right away, and have been in the zone.

The blocks are either one charm square with a white border, or a white square with a jelly roll border. They turned out really well, except for this one and its mate:

I accidentally swapped two pieces in the aqua and green blocks. I didn’t find it til I laid out the whole thing, so I’m keeping it this way.

The backing fabric I found at hobby lobby, and I used a 40% off coupon, so it ended up being super cheap. The lady at the cutting counter told me “don’t you think this backing is kind of bright with the other fabrics” to which I responded “no”. I don’t know what else you could say besides that. I finished piecing all the blocks together, the backing, and cutting and sewing the binding yesterday, and today I am up bright and early to try and finish this thing. Yay.