soooo...

So today I thought about it while I was at work, because why think about work... when I could think about quilting :D

so I think the quilt is a hair short, so I got home and I put it on my bed and yes, its a hair short... boooo... so now I need to make a could more rows of squares...

so I did a little bit of cutting before I went for a bike ride and then Taco bell... cause there is nothing like eating the calories you just burnt off... and guess what Kim asked me to be in her wedding :D

I'm super excited cause I love weddings :D

so tomorrow I will finish cutting :D

All pieced!

All done!

yey! well kind of...lol...

tomorrow I will cut strips to sew on the outside.

what strips should I do?

Rockin it out

So today I finished pinning the non-circle squares together, and sewed them into squares!

now, what color strips should I use? I think I want to do two...

probably the first one in tan? and the second one the green?? or should I do the orange?

what do you guys think?

oh and I bought a new cutting mat, since during this project I some how pretty much wore out the self healing line at 13 1/2 line :D oops...

Happier

So...

I was happy last post... which was like an hour or so ago...

but now I've sewed all of my half circles into circles... and I seriously could not be more delighted with how they turned out... Pretty darn close to perfect... except 1... that one is not getting redone... yey!

and honestly I feel on top of the world right now, going into this project I was not sure I was skilled enough to pull off a circle. I am so proud of myself... not to brag or anything, but I feel so happy!!!! and honestly I feel like I could sew anything...lol... but I'll focus on this quilt. t-6 days till I want to have the top done.

Happy

So the fruits of my tearing seams and repinning and sewing came to fruition today, and I couldnt be happier, I'm really really glad I did it. All but two came out PERFECT! and those two are close... so I think I will leave those.

My mom would be proud... listening to her advice to take out seams all the time... and on this quilt I have been paying attention, I dont know how many I have redone, but its been a lot, but I think its been worth it and I sure hope Lillia will agree when she gets this quilt for Christmas... But then again, I'm sure a quilt for an 8 year old will not be the most exciting thing she gets at Christmas, it might take some time for her to appreciate it. I think I'm ok with that.

back to the pinning to make full squares.

Apparently a perfectionist

lol...

well all day at work the imperfect one kept bothering me,

so I came home and I sorted out the good, the bad and the almost good... and decided the bad were the only ones coming apart, they will get a second try...

don't ask how many

the number is too high to admit...

:D

First time for everything

so last night I tried sewing without cutting the thread between each square it turned out pretty well... I did all 72 of the 1/2 circles of orange last night...

now my problem is, when I look at the half circle some of them came out perfect, some came out close and some are waaaayyy off...

what do I do about the ones that are way off... do I take them apart and retry, cause if I take them apart, I would need to take apart other ones to try and match them up with...

but I mean they are really noticiable, some are close and I'm not sure I really want to retake apart all of the ones that arent a perfect match... what should I do?

288!

So today, I sewed the last square. Over the past few days I pinned the orange squares together to make half circles. and now working on sewing them! yey! all 288 squares done.

June update

Well its been 10 days short of a month since my last update.
but today I sewed a lot, after doing 3 loads of laundry and all of my ironing for the past two weeks, grocery shopping and some other stuff...
but I sewed all of the squares I had pinned,
so if all goes well during ironing (which I hope to do tomorrow) I will have only have a few squares to pin and then I can start putting it together and seeing the quilt finally develop.

I can not wait, goal have the top finished by the time I visit my parents for fathers day... lets hope I keep this deadline!