My First Quilt
At the start of the year we heard some amazing news – the hubby’s God-Daughter was expecting a baby! And now I had a real and proper reason now to make my first quilt. I sweated over this for hours, and had sleepless nights and there weren’t even any fitting issues involved. I did discover when I went shopping that I needed a pattern and couldn’t just buy fabric willy nilly! I came home with these lovely little lot after my Spoolette’s Meet Up at the Fabbadashery: And 3 months later I had this! I had quite severe brain ache whilst making this. Not the actual sewing, more of what colours to use: I finally chose these, and after much googling the pattern of the disappearing 9 square. Then I needed to choose the layout of my squares ones I’d chopped the into quarters: The quilting design: I made myself a piece to practice on And practice I did! And the binding: And lastly, the easy bit – embroider her name …