The Delinquency I plan to perpetrate this year....

[maevebran]

I have lost my frigging mind an have decided to try to make a queen sized quilt (at least top and backing) every other month this year. I'll have to pay to have someone quilt them for me since I can barely get a twin sized through my machine and my quilting is not that great. I will probably make a few lap sized ones as well.

To that end I have acquired 40-50 yards of fabric in the last 8 days. Most of it Christmas fabric. I plan on giving at least three of the six quilts as Christmas gifts. (One to my Parents, one to Mom's Parents, and one to Dad's Mom.) I'll post pictures here when the tops are completed. (I can only post here since Mom reads all my other social media and other blogs).

I've started the first quilt - a Christmas Log Cabin. I'm 1/4 the way done with the 48 blocks.

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Wow - that is quite some project - but they will make wonderful gift.

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

Yep. I don't try small challenges -they're too easy.=)

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Mom was an Home Ec - Ed major in college. I couldn't get out of the house without learning to sew and bake. Granted I taught myself and then my Grandma to quilt but the foundations was there from when I was little.=)

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

There are easy quilt patterns and there are hard quilt patterns. The easy ones are strips of fabric sewn together with no tricky corners. I recommend

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There are easy quilt patterns and there are hard quilt patterns. The easy ones are strips of fabric sewn together with no tricky corners. I recommend <a herf="http://www.amazon.com/Irish-Chain-Day-Single-Double/dp/1891776177/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389074326&sr=1-1&keywords=irish+chain+quilt> the Irish Chain</a> from that book or <a herf="http://www.amazon.com/Underground-Railroad-Sampler-Eleanor-Burns/dp/1891776134/ref=pd_sim_b_8"> or the Log Cabin from this book</a> to start with. The rotary cutter technique from the Quilt In A Day series is really easy. Find a local quilt shop (not a Jo Ann's) and take a class.