Started On The Quilt

Yesterday I ironed the fabric and cut off the salvage edges.  My afternoon started with the ironing for this project and before I even got started, I burned the inside of my arm, right near the crease for where it bends at the elbow.  I have no clue how I burned myself there or that it was even possible.  It happened so fast.  What a way to start the afternoon out and this (what was suppose to be fun) project.  *sigh*

I thought I’d stop there, but the bug hit me, so I continued on (the iron burn didn’t defeat me).  I went ahead and cut all of the fabric pieces to size, so that everything was ready to go.  I didn’t think I was rushing, but made two very costly wrong cuts in the fabric.  I’m determined not to go back to the fabric store and spend more money to replace a stupid mistake I made, so I sewed pieces back together to make the proper lengths.  It will be noticeable in several areas of the quilt, but I’m hoping no one will really notice it unless I show them.  We’ll see.  I’m trying not to stress about it (my perfect baby quilt is not perfect anymore…*shakes head in disgust*).

I thought I’d stop there, but didn’t (not letting the wrong cuts defeat me either).  I went ahead and sewed all of the quilt squares together, ironed them, and laid them out in the other room with my next step in place (that I hope to have time to work on today).

My sewing machine was not cooperating well, so when my husband came home, he came home to a very irate pregnant wife who was extremely exhausted from trying time and time again to figure out what was wrong with the stupid sewing machine.  It took me so many tries (taking the stupid thing apart and putting it back together each time), but I finally (think) I got it all figured out and we’re good to go again.  We’ll see how today goes (fingers crossed).

I’ll sew the little blue pieces in between the quilt squares to the squares and make five rows.  Then I’ll sew the strips (not shown) in between each row, then add the borders. At that point, the top part of the quilt will be finished.  Ideally I’d like to do that today and then come to a stopping point, but I have several errands to run today and groceries is one of them (we’re in desperate need of food in this house). I’ll continue to post pictures of the quilt as I work on it, so check back.