My Dumb Luck Quilt

This is my newest quilt project. This is a memory quilt for my son's Preschool Director that is leaving for South Dakota at the end of month. The white blocks each of the kids and staff drew on. I hadn't thought it all the way through so I was telling my friend the one that got me into quilting what my plan was. I was going to sew 4 white blocks to form rows and then seperate each row with a color strip. And the next thing I know were at her mom's and they were designing a quilt top and the next thing I know were cutting blocks and sewing a quilt top! It turned out MUCH better than my original thought and I'm so happy with it. I used scrap fabric that I had from my sewing days and the colors came together so well and even though I didn't have enough fabric we got creative and it turned out beautifully! My Grandma would call it Dumb Luck when things just happen...so this quilt is named Dumb Luck!

Block #4

Here's Block of the month #4. I almost didn't get this one done. I started it the day before it was due and I cut it too small. So My friend had extra fabric I was able to use to cut it correctly I re-cut and had it sewn in about 6 hours and was able to make it to block of the month the next morning.

Block #3 finished

I haven't posted my quilt blocks in a while. I've been so busy I haven't got on here to blog. So I'm going to try to catch up. I'm posting the final result of block of the Month #3. I'm really happy with the way it turned out.

Block 3 Colors

So here is block 3's fabric! I am SO IN LOVE with this color way! I've alway's LOVED LOVED LOVED Michael Millers fabric but the Krystal line is BEEEEEE-U-T-FULL!!!! I am getting so excited about my quilt now! Even though this quilt is going to take over a year to complete I can't help but be excited about it. So stay tuned to see what these 2 strip's of color end up being!

Block 2 is Finished

So I panicked after my last BOTM meeting and I just knew the Quilting God's HATED me after my first train wreck of a block and then this one has some pro's shaking in their boots. So I was totally freaked out. The good thing about being a visual learner, is Once I do something I can do it a million times after learning. And the good thing about this block was it's again 1/2 triangles, so I knew what I was doing it was just going to be arranging them in a different order. I was so happy with this block, I only had to rip one set of seams and re-sew it but that was because I was talking on the phone when I did it and sewed it right to wrong lol. When I finished the center piecing I actually cried happy tears because I was so excited with how easy and well it went together....that was until....dun dun dun.... the top edge didn't match up. It was 1/2 in. too long...I measured all my seams in the piecing and they all seem to be 1/4 in or just a hair off but this had me freaking out... Now happy tears turned back into frustrated tears. I put it away for a few day's so I could breathe and re-group. I fixed it and then put it all together.... It's kinda warped looking in the photo but it's not that bad in real life.

Jan. Quilt block is finished!

Let me tell you that this block has tested my nerves. It has been my little grain of sand in the oyster turning into a pearl. While it's not my best sewing project ever, and I'm still not totally happy with the end result, my very first quilt block is finished. I've learned a lot from little squares of fabric. I'm still deciding if I want to take off the edges and re cut them or just let it be. I have the rest of the year to figure that out, so for now I am able to look at it and be ok with it.

Jan Block cont.

Jan Block