I realized that I had not finished the binding on the two small quilts I made while in class. I despise hand sewing so I put it off forever.. but I spent most of Sunday finishing those up. I realized on Saturday, while I made my 3rd quilt top, that I couldn’t just have a bunch of unfinished quilts laying around, even though I’m using them as learning tools instead of.. well, you know.. blankets.
I have to tell a story about this quilt because I’m not totally in love with it. See, we learned a LOT about color in quilting class, and then she sent us out to find fabrics. It was hard, we had no idea what we were doing. I put these together and then realized, before it was too late, that I’d probably be happier if I used the brown/blue with something else and the orange/white&pink on another quilt. I brought this up to my instructor and she said NO WAY that this is perfect and it’s modern and beautiful. I think it’s ugly, but it’s my first born so I have to love it anyway, right?
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The quilting class was moving too slowly for me. Basically she didn’t want us to have any ‘homework’ but I wanted to be sewing something outside of class, so I made another quilt while we were learning stuff in class. I’m much happier with it, but any quilter will tell you that it’s TERRIBLE. Why? Well, without boring you with too many details, the design and fabrics and colors are good but the execution is BAD. Nothing matches up. But, I love this quilt! I totally taught myself how to do it, and picked everything out on my own.
(I love this green & brown polka-dot fabric, I should go get some yardage of it before it’s discontinued.)
I should have done more quilting on this one, but I was borrowing a walking foot at that point and had to give it back. I wanted it done so I went ahead and binded it.. now I wish I would have quilted more. Oh well, I’m still learning!
