Quilt Along Blocks 5, 6, and 7

Well, except for this week's block, I'm caught up with AmandaJean's quilt along.

I am madly in love with

these fabrics. I think the

blocks are just coming out so cute.

But I might have mentioned that already.

I can't say that all of my points are perfect - and I'm thinking that I might lose some more when I sew the squares together, but I'm sure that I'm the one that's going to notice that the most.

I got this in the mail a couple of weeks ago.

Along with this lucious jelly roll.

I'm hoping that by doing a quilt with just a jelly roll, I won't feel compelled to go buy at least of yard of each of these fabulous fabrics. Because, really, as much as I want more fabric, I probably shouldn't get more. Yes, Judy does make a compelling argument for getting more fabric. An argument which I have already used to justify a small purchase from eCrack. But honestly. Really. I should not get anymore fabric for awhile.

But, of course, trying not to buy new fabric will have to wait until after I get some of this fabric, to make this pattern, or maybe this pattern. *sigh*

The Tablerunner

I finished the table runner. You know, I must say, the problem with blogging about this stuff is that you have an actual record of how long you've been working on something. Seriously. I finished the top of this in MARCH. I just can't believe that it has been that long. Well, it's finished now.The quilting on it was inspired by Sharon, specifically this post where she shows the flowers that she quilted. Yes, I realize that my flowers don't look nearly as good as hers, or, truthfully, even like hers. But still. That post got my brain rattling around and I decided what I wanted to quilt on this quilt.

Here's a close up of the back which shows the quilting better. I did a flower in the squares, and then a figure 8 in the rectangles between the squares. The figure 8's look almost like leaves. Almost. Then I just did some stippling in the rectangles between the blacks stars - with no quilting whatsoever on the black stars.
Here's the back. I tried to do one of those free form type backs that so many wonderful quilting bloggers do and make them look so wonderful. I'm not sure that mine looks wonderful, and I also know that it seemed to take forever to do. I must not be "free" enough.

I haven't washed it yet. I did so much laundry this weekend, am still doing laundry, and I just didn't really feel like making more laundry.



Also, Jackie is having a great giveaway going on. If you win, she'll quilt a quilt for you! How fabulous is that! I could really use this. Especially since I'm think about joining this challenge along with Jacquie (Jacquie's quilts are incredible - I even got some fabric so that I can shamelessly "copy" one of them). Blogging gets me in such trouble.

Borders

So, I decided that I wanted to finished the quilt that I started over a year ago! Wow, time sure flies. Anyway. I originally got the pattern and idea from Allsorts. I had gotten some fabric that I thought would work great for the border.

Well, I got the border on two sides, and realized that it did NOT work at all. The green in the border was too much for the rest the quilt.

So, that required a trip to the fabric store. And not just any fabric store, I had to go to M&L Fabrics in Anaheim - where they have great fabric for $2.98 a yard! Unless, of course, you're looking for something specific, and then you pay $7.98 a yard. Guess how much I paid. *sigh* Anaheim is not really close to me (about 35 minutes away), but it can be worth it to go that store if you can find fabric for $2.98 a yard. And I did find some stuff that eQuilter had on sale for more than $2.98.

So, I got home ripped out the borders that I had already put on, and sewed on the new fabric that I got. It's an Aunt Sukey's Choice fabric. I think that it really livens up the quilt.

I also pieced the backing - using fabric similar to what I had originally put on the borders. I screwed up the size of the borders - the top and bottom border are just a tad too big. I think it's a 1/2 inch (if I now realize correctly what I did wrong in my calculations). *heavy sigh*

I really liked this quilt when I first started. Now, not so much. However, I do have it pinned and ready to quilt. I'm going to try out Kim's quilting pattern. Not having done that pattern before, it might be just as well that I'm going to try it on a quilt that I don't love.

I really wanted to give this quilt to a girlfriend of mine, but I just don't think that I can. We'll see how it comes out in the end.