This is going to be the week of finished projects. I can feel it. The Halloween quilt is kicking it off, but Will’s car quilt and the chalkboard tablecloth are going to follow. All that organizing and reorganizing charm squares is done!
It didn’t come out as I planned–I had wanted to place the patchwork strips more randomly on the brown, but with six strips it looked weird. I also didn’t do my math before sewing, and my quilt ended up tall and skinny. When I laid it out on the kitchen floor to show Nic I led with “it’s kind of a stupid shape” and he laughed and didn’t disagree. Sooooooo….even though I am trying to quilt in a more relaxed fashion, this is a good lesson: math is still important.
It is my first quilt where I’ve felt like the binding had the power to make or break it. When I finished machine quilting the fleece back to the quilt top and evened out the edges, I was disappointed. But once the polka dot binding was on it looked a LOT better.
The quilt is machine quilted in white along the long rows. The binding is also machine finished–a first for me, but fantastic. Hand sewing binding always sucks, but this makes finishing a quilt super fast!
Will likes it, and was willing to pose for all of 3 seconds for me. I am looking forward to bringing this out annually and having it become part of their Halloween memories. Wrapping it around them in the car on the drive home from trick-or-treating, spreading their candy out on it, etc.
Details: fabric – Moda pumpkins gone wild charm pack + kona cotton coffee solid for sashing. pattern – inspired by the Charm Pack Squares pattern by Oh Fransson! (were I to do it again I’d follow the pattern instead of just peeking at the picture once!)
