I made a quilt!

[lilacsigil]

This is the first quilt I've made, so while it's a bit wonky, I'm very proud of it.

Good things about making a quilt:

- I could cuddle it while I worked on it
- it uses up vast amounts of fabric scraps that were too pretty to throw away
- now I have an actual quilt on my bed
- it was a really good pick-up-put-down project that I could do in lots of easy stages
- it's completely fascinating to stare at

Bad things about making a quilt:

- once it's assembled, it was huge and heavy and difficult to push through the sewing machine
- pieces of the same fabric call to each other and despite my best efforts I have found at least five places with adjacent matching squares
- now I'm all bereft! Though I did make a soft toy platypus today and now it is watching me beadily
- it's completely fascinating to stare at so my time going to bed or getting up has been greatly extended



The quilt hanging on the line


A close-up of the top


A close-up of the bottom


Now you can see my wonky stitching!




I definitely want to make another one some time, so if there's any experienced quilters on my flist, please give me hints!

Comments

[pauraque]

So cool! How big is it?

[havocthecat]

Oh, that's gorgeous! I wish I was an experienced quilter, but not so much.

[lilacsigil]

Thank you! I wish I was an experienced quilter, too!

[samjohnsson]

looks amazing! is it lined or batted?

[lilacsigil]

Thanks! Batted with a cotton/wool blend.

[amalnahurriyeh]

Whoa! That's awesome!

[lilacsigil]

Thanks!

[vass]

OMG IT IS GORGEOUS.

What techniques did you use?

I made a quilt in, IDK, 2007? Earlier?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v344/vassilissa/quilt.jpg

My hint is unnecessary for you, but might help someone else reading your journal: maybe don't use denim and corduroy for your very first quilt.

[lilacsigil]

I like your pinwheels!

It so happened that a lot of my scraps were long thin strips, so I following the blocking tutorial from this blog which was a lot easier than piecing each square individually. It's all machine-stitched, on wool-cotton blend batting and I quilted it in a very simple way, just in long straight lines every three mini-squares, down and across.

I have enough sewing experience to know not to hit the heavy fabrics first, so that's something!

[king_touchy]

Now I have quilt envy. Yours is fun; I like it a lot.

[lilacsigil]

Thank you! All the scraps made it fun to make, too.

[kindkit]

That's awesome! I love the colors and the blue-to-red shift

[lilacsigil]

Thank you! A postage-stamp quilt is meant to be a completely random quilt, but I couldn't resist giving it some design.

[cleo]

Oooh, it's so pretty! Nice work!

[lilacsigil]

Thank you!

[lonelywalker]

Ooooh! *paws at screen*

...can we see the platypus?

[lilacsigil]

I will post the platypus!

[layangabi]

That is a gorgeously amazing quilt!

[lilacsigil]

Thank you!

[meloukhia]

Lovely! And crafty. You say wonky stitching, but I'm still quite impressed.

[lilacsigil]

Thank you! I live in a small town with lots of very crafty people, so I always feel like mine's a bit lacking in comparison. Still, it's exciting to have finished it even if I wouldn't enter it in the agricultural show!

[saturnofthemoon]

It's beautiful!

[lilacsigil]

Thank you!

[challyzatb]

Um, that looks AMAZING.

[lilacsigil]

Thank you!

[torachan]

Whoa, that's awesome! I love the half red/half blue/mixing in the middle thing it's got going on, and with the small squares, it looks like a pixelated picture or something.

[lilacsigil]

Thanks! It really does look like a pixellated picture in the photo - close up the squares are each about 4cm so it's not quite so computerised-looking.

[gnatkip]

It's beautiful!

[heartequals]

So cool! I love the color change in it.