Another day, another project finished. Here is the quilt for the baby Mabel. A year late but finished. I really loved the pattern when I saw it. It's called "single girl" and it's by Denise Schmidt.
It took quite a long time because I had to make all the templates out of Myla so I didn't hack the pattern to pieces. I tried to make it as random as possible so each ring looked different.
In the end I did most things wrong. I cut the white material too small and had to unpick it. In future I would cut it much bigger so I could trim it down afterwards.
I finally got to grips with how useful two rulers can be when your quilt is really big. I am not too good at folding them in four and trimming. It just scares me, so this lining up of rulers felt safer.
The biggest problem was the machine quilting. I found it really hard to keep turning the quilt as it was quite bulky and involved a lot of folding it then re folding it. All the twisting and turning and stopping and starting meant that the needle kept jumping when I stopped and started and it took me a long long time to work out how to minimise it. So it's a bit rough round the edges, but I learnt loads and those are my favourite kinds of quilts to do.
It looked great in the end.
5 comments:
Gorgeous. I love it! I want to make one.
And baby Mabel loves it! She is composing a thank you letter as we speak. (Actually, she isn't, she is asleep, but she will be doing!)
I thought it looked gorgeous J, very pretty.
I totally get the need for more than one ruler, I wouldn't dare fold and trim the quilt down. I'd probably slice straight through the good stuff.
Love the quilt! Beautiful colours. I'm certain Mabel loves it.
This is beautiful! Love the color selection AND the quilting :)
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