My Favorite Color - quilt top

I have been doing alot more posts of the process of quilting since I have seen many people with this button on their blogs.



I think it is a great idea to show everyone the process and what goes into sewing and just not the finished products. So I have taken the process pledge!

Gweniveve has been begging me to make her a blue quilt as that is her favorite color. She also follows me when I go into my stash to find some fabrics and when I pull out one that is blue she tells me no that is for my blue blanket. So we have been collecting blue fabrics for awhile now and I finally finished all the blocks and got the top put together.



The top is 57" x 80" which is alot larger than I was going for but it will be a great quilt for Gwen to have forever.



Every block is a different print which means my stash of blue is rather large! I plan to get this quilted and all done so that I can give it to Gwen for one of her Christmas presents since as we all know quilts are expensive and are alot of time to make especially ones that are this large.



I plan to quilt squares within the squares but we will see it might be a pain to turn this large of a quilt that much.

Frustration + Blocks

I have not been doing alot of sewing lately or blogging since I finished my O'Christmas Tree quilt. I got it all quilted, bound and washed.



When I pulled it out of the wash one of the blocks had come to pieces. It was a block someone had made for me in one of my Quilting Bees. They had used reverse applique. All I can say is that I was so upset and sad. So much work went into making the quilt and now it was ruined.

My options are to un-pick the binding, the border then un-pick the whole block and take it out and make a new block and sew it in and re quilt it and bind it.

OR

I can applique over the block with stabilizer and then just quilt around the tree through all three layers.

Either option sounds not so fun and makes the quilt something different. So needless to say it has given me pause in sewing.

Today I finally felt the need to sew and picked up Gwen's blue blocks and started to make some more blocks then I ran out of white kona. Of course! I still need to make 6 more white blocks and 7 more print blocks but I can't wait to get it done it is going to be soooo Gweniveve. Every print is different so every block is unique and also means that I have ALOT of blue fabrics!!!

Some Progress

I start working on Gweniveve's Blue Quilt today. I got 11 blocks made and I think it will be so fun and different. I ran out of steam to make the rest so hopefully later this weekend or early next week I can get the top all done.