This is the quilt that I started a few months ago. At first I thought I'd make a quilt using some scrap material that I had (I would be thrifty!)...However, as I got going, I realized that I didn't have the right color or enough of a certain pattern, etc., so I ended up having to purchase a lot of fabric too. So my "scrap" quilt ended up being a little bit of scraps and a whole lot of new stuff. I used my mom's fancy sewing machine to do the machine quilting on top.
Here is a picture of the completed product. I wanted to be sure and take a picture before I washed it incase the colors ran. And, good thing I did, because the dark blue color ran. Bummer. Big bummer. I used a product called "Retayne" that is supposed to keep the colors from running and I followed the instructions. The parts that are the most noticeable are the dark yellow squares. Now they are kind of like a light green (blue and yellow makes green!) Well, maybe it's not that bad, it just looks dingy. Maybe it will wear off. I don't know. At least I have a picture of the quilt back when it was in prestine condition, right? Back when it was yellow and happy...instead of ...blue...or should I say green and ugly. Just kidding.
Here's a close up of one of the corners (also before washing). Incase you're interested, I got the pattern from this website: http://quiltville.com/smokeymtstars.shtml
3 comments:
wow Tina, that is a beautiful quilt! I'm really impressed!
I'm impressed too. I only attempt baby quilts because anything bigger is too intimidating. And I say if you're going to go through all the effort to make a quilt, you might as well go all out and splurge on fabric so it's worth the time and you're happy with the end product.
It really is beautiful!
That's beautiful! I have only made one quilt in my life, for my YW project--for which I had pretty much no idea what I was doing. It was okay, but now 15 or so years later and it's tearing at the seams and such. I have a whole bunch of scraps myself that I've been thinking about making into a quilt, and these pieces seem small enough and regular enough (that was my problem--not cutting regular sized scraps to piece and not having a pattern) that it can even use small scraps.
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