How to make a quilt?
Step one: weed through dozens if not hundreds of patterns a certain someone has been collecting knowing full well she may never get a chance to make them.
Step two: pick three or four favourites (pray that they are precut or fat quarter friendly)
Step three: stand in front of your limited fabric stash for several minutes (resist the urge to pet or stroke it) we have to get quilting before this urge passes… dang, there are too many choices!
Step four: choose a bundle of fat quarters
Step five: Pick one pattern out of your stack of pattenrs that you think might work with the bundle you are now petting in your lap.
Step six: open the pattern and read through the fabric requirements and cutting instructions.
Step seven: although it makes very little sense at first read, repeatedly tell yourself ‘you can do this’
Step seven: after several long glances, give up, go back to your stash, put the fat quarters back, grab a jelly roll, load the machine with your favourite thread, throw a prewound bobbin in the bobbin case and bust the jelly roll open!
Step eight: sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew
Step nine: sew, cut, sew, cut, sew, cut, sew, cut.
Step ten: sandwich, quilt, bind!
Here goes nothing!
I’m actually doing this!
You have no idea how great this feels!
