Lavender Lovely - Done! -

After a couple of false starts - Lavender Lovely is finally DONE!! - ;))

Plan A was to make a standard Jelly Roll Race Quilt - baby quilt size - but when I messed up - I switched to Plan B -

Plan B was to use some Quilt-As-You-Go Batting by June Tailor - HERE - but I didn't have the yardage to cut the wider strips  and I wanted to use the Jelly Roll - so then I switched to Plan C -

Plan C was/is a variation of both - kind of like a giant version of stitch-and-flip - ;))

I started by flipping over the basted batting/backing from last time - to stitch around the outer edges to tack the batting down - so it didn't somehow get folded over or caught while I was sewing from the top side.  It was easier to feed through the machine with the fabric side down - and I could see where the edge of the batting was -

I had pinned from the top - and that didn't pose a problem - lucky for me - YAY!! -

Finished sewing and took the pins out -

Took it over to the kitchen island - flipped it again - backing side down - grabbed a couple of strips - and patted myself on the back because I could see some really cool "registration" lines on the batting - to use to line things up as I stitched from the top -

Then I realized that I should turn the whole thing sideways so I could press the whole length of the strip from one side of the quilt to the other -

I also noticed that the batting was seriously wonky on this side - so I chalked out a line to use as a placement guide -

Laid out the first two strips - right sides together -

Oh - I forgot to mention that I had taken the original super-long Jelly Roll Race Quilt strips and cut them all down to 33" - and sorted them to mix up the prints a little -

And I pinned them - even though I didn't really need to because I'm using a fusible batting - the bottom strip is pressed/fused to the batting - the top strip is pinned through all the layers to keep it from shifting -

Took it to the machine - used my walking foot - and moved the needle to the right so that I had a 1/4" seam - stitched it down -

Took it back to the kitchen island - flipped the top strip open and pressed it down -

Turned it over to check out the first seam line from the back - not too bad - looks pretty straight -

Added another strip -

Rinse and repeat - checking periodically to see if the "registration" lines were still in line with the strips being added -

And got the bottom half done - turned it around -

And started adding strips to the other end - working from the middle to the top of the quilt -

And - from the back - the lines are pretty straight on the plaid - considering the fact that I can't see where I'm sewing and have no idea if I'm hitting the lines or not -

Any slight wobbles get hidden in the seam allowance -

Top strips all sewn -

Flipped over one of the sides to check "straightness" - not too bad -

Then - I stitched down the end strips - to keep them from getting twisted or folded over -

Flipped it over to mark the binding placement lines - trying to keep the stitching lines parallel and the seam lines on the back straight when compared to the edge -

Trying to get a straight edge -

The stitching line is the edge of the batting - the yellow line will be the edge of the quilt -

Keeping it pretty straight -

Binding is sewn on - edge of the binding on the placement line (ignore the second yellow line to the right - it's not the placement line) -

Can you see where I joined the binding? -

It's easier to see from the front -

The colors are "truer" in this photo - all ready to trim -

All trimmed - ready to press and fold over -

The back - with binding on -

The front - "Glamour" shot -

I stitched on a label for the baby - and ran it through the washer and dryer to soften it up - and THIS happened - Oops!! -

So I fixed it - with - what else? - with a heart - ;))

I wasn't about to put a nice, clean baby quilt back on the floor - so I took another "Glamour" shot of it on the quilting table.  The little heart is a little something "extra" that you might not notice at first glance - and no one will ever know that it's covering a frayed seam - unless they read my blog and see this post - ;))

I don't know what I'm going to be working on next -

But I still have to make the Scrap Card and Heart for my Scrapbook -

And I promised a table runner to a friend -

And some potholders to another friend -

So it's not like I don't have choices - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -