I expect to share lots and lots of posts over the coming several months on my adventures into Quilt Making.
I am a beginner. I am a basic sewer. My mother is a professional seamstress and I have had no need my entire life to so much as touch a sewing machine.
However....
quilt making is my challenge of choice. I do enjoy sewing, of the basic variety. I often include stitching on my scrapbooking layouts and project life spreads. Sometimes handstitching, sometimes machine stitching.
I am beginning with quilts for those close to home. One teenage son and 2 little grandsons and 1 step granddaughter.
Each quilt is different, but the patterns and sewing requirements are very very basic. Straight lines for cutting fabric, straight lines for stitching pieces of fabric together.
This black, white and yellow quilt if for my teenage son. Thankfully the bold graphics are very forgiving as very few squares actually match up. I have come up with a solution for future quilts with squares and that is to deliberately offset them.
I created this pattern from the squares I could cut from the fabric that I had.
I did not start with the end in mind.
I started with the fabric, a square template and a pair of scissors.
I cut every piece of fabric (which was of varying lengths and widths) into squares. I then got to pattern making, this took less than an hour and after several switches the pattern emerged. Yes I have squares left over and thats okay. This fabric has been in my cupboard for quite some time and simply done was going to be simply good enough.
Sewing squares is so simple, yet so enjoyable. Complicated sewing is not for me. Basic is.
I have the middle organised. I have the backing organised. Neither are cut yet and that comes next.