Becky over at Patchwork Posse reached out to me last week and asked me to review the Avalon Quilt pattern from Material Obsession that I used for my Rainbow Quilt. Of course I said yes! Here is the review, mine is at the bottom. So exciting!
Tag: rainbow quilt
So…I’m a little burned out this week. Work (hopefully) slows down for me now until the end of May/beginning of June when I start summer reading book distribution. But I’m still so tired from Dr. Seuss Day festivities and my 2 other big weeks-and-months-long projects that I finished last week. So I haven’t posted much this week, and my thoughts are still kind of jumbled. So here are some random things.
Other posts on this project: Rainbow Quilt Pt. 1, Rainbow Quilt Pt. 2, Rainbow Quilt Pt. 3, The Quilt Is Pinned and My Fabric Came.
So I realized (after talking to my mom about it) that I’m just not ready to do a meandering, free-motion quilting design on this quilt. It’s too big and I have too little practice on my little Janome. So my mom and I came to the conclusion that a simple grid would be a good way to practice quilting something this big without having to wrestle it around turns for a design. This is a great idea, and we were excited that I can use the guide on my walking foot to space the lines, rather than have to draw them on the quilt.
Other posts on this project: Rainbow Quilt Pt. 1, Rainbow Quilt Pt. 2, Rainbow Quilt Pt. 3.
The quilt is pinned. And now it’s sitting on the spare bed until I work up the courage to actually quilt it.
Other posts on this project: Rainbow Quilt Pt. 1, Rainbow Quilt Pt. 2.
I’ve finally finished the quilt top. It had a bit of a hiatus this month after I pieced together all the rows at the end of January. I don’t know why, exactly. Well, yes I do. I got so many great new books for Christmas and my birthday that suddenly this project wasn’t as exciting to me as all the new shiny projects in these books. And unless it’s a project that’s going to eat up a big chunk of time, I try to finish a project before starting another one. So somehow as a result I just didn’t work on anything. But once I picked this back up last night I was excited about it again.
Other posts on this project: Rainbow Quilt Pt. 1.
I’ve finished piecing together the 4 rows for this quilt. Now I need to piece together the sashing strips to go between the rows and all around the quilt.