When You Have Some Extra Time

This beautiful quilt is complete, and ready to be mailed. It's a Quilt of Valor, and the most time consuming quilt I've ever made (up to this point.) Each 6" block (center square and framing triangles - 29 to 32 pieces) took an hour to assemble (that's not cutting, fixing or building into a strip...) I made it as a quilt-as-you-go, and the instructions are on my How-To pages. There were days I was ready to toss my sewing machines, and by the end, I was really done with all of it. But now, I don't think of the frustrations, the imperfections, the mistake I made that effected several rows of the finished quilt. 

Now it's done, and I am thinking of the next thing I want to create.

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  I began with blocks (5" here)

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  Laid them out and added triangles

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  Until patterns emerged

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  Built out strips of blocks

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  Then began quilting a corner

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  And adding the next strip to be quilted

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  So that slowly but surely

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  A quilt was emerging

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  And finally, it was finished

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  And from a distance, it's beautiful

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  And ready to go to it's recipient

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  And the instructions are in my 'How-To'

I'm Doing It Again

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  Hours of cutting and sorting

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  Laying out for color arrangements

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  Each block takes an hour to assemble

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  Strips will be Quilt As You Go'd

I decided to do a 'How-I-Made-That' for this quilt, and in cutting out some pieces and doing the tutorial, I find that I am now making a second quilt of similar design. This one is a Quilt As You Go version, different in many ways.