Back in the Saddle!

Hello,

It has been so long since I posted.  I wish I had taken a picture of my daughter's teacher quilt after it was quilted and bound.  Her teacher LOVED it!  And she really appreciated it as she quilts when she has time.  I have handprints to make four more quilts for Jenny's second and third grade teachers.  

But first, I decided to do one for myself :)  I went to Moda Bake Shop and found one I loved!  You can find the pattern here.  It is very easy to follow, but I did learn some new lessons.  I wish I had taken pictures all along, but I didn't.  Here is where I am now ...

I went with a different color pallet, I used two French General favorites jelly rolls.  Then I went to my LQS to find the color I wanted to use as the sashing.  Finally, I tried starching my fabric before cutting.  I still have some work to do to effectively use this method.

Above is the quilt on my design wall.  I have sewn the top two rows, but not the rows together.  I am so excited that I am getting my points to match!  It's the little things that make me happy.

After I finish sewing my blocks together, then I will get started on my borders.  My goal is to finish this up by Halloween.  Then I have a quilt to make for my brother-in-law for Christmas.  

I will update you soon!  Thanks for reading!  Jackie

Finally Finished!!!

Oh my goodness, I can finally say that I finished a quilt I started making two years ago for my daughter's first grade teacher.

Keep in mind, I am a new quilter.  Okay, I say new quilter, but this is my fifth finish.  The others I made were not even close to being this difficult.  Those are all little individual 1.5 inch squares that were cut and sewn together.  I saw something like this on Pinterest, and thought, "That's cute ... I can do that!"  I had NOOOO idea how difficult it would be.

These are the hand prints of all the students in J-bug's first grade class, along with the teacher's.  Below is a picture of the heart.

Then I used freezer paper to make a stencil and painted the saying below.

 I'm kind of disappointed, some of my letters globbed together through the stencil, and it didn't do that on my practice run.  

Oh well, I am proud of it!  I know her teacher will love it!

Thanks for checking in!
Jackie