14.4.11

Planning...

I'm very excited for an all day "quilt-a-thon" on Saturday!!  I'm going to a friends house for the day, without kids, and I get to quilt all day - what a novelty!  Her husband will take their kids out of the house for the day too so we'll have uninterrupted sew time!  Yes...I'm really looking forward to it :)

So, I'm planning to start, and see how far I get, with a quilt for our 3rd child, Tessa.  I bought this pack of fat quarters last summer and plan on using that and making a log cabin quilt.  It's "Cottage Charm" by Heather Mulder Peterson.
I'll be making them with one half of the block warm and the other cool coloured.

I searched online for a pattern to make it simple for myself but I could really only find instructions for making the individual blocks.  So here's my block plan with sizing for the pieces:
 And then I figured out how I could get the most out of my fat quarters.  I have just enough for a 60x90 twin quilt!  (that is as long as I've figured it out right...)
Fun, fun!! 

5 comments:

  1. It looks good! So fun to start something new. Hope you get lots done and have lots of fun.

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  2. this is going to be so beautiful...you are so lucky to get a sewing day like that. it is like a mini retreat

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  3. Hi Suzanne, just found your blog..not to sure how...blog hopping my way around the world...Love this range of fabric and your quilt is going to look great....
    Hugs Dawn x x

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  4. Can't wait to see how it turns out! Hope your sewing marathon is fun!

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  5. Very Clever, that's one of the things I love about quilting is when you have to do the maths, it's very challenging but very rewarding.

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