My Lapghan Quilting Project 2024

 

December 2023 - I had a collection of old torn jeans I had saved for some unknown reason. I decided to take them and make a lap throw blanket that would be about 3 1/2 feet wide by about 5 feet long. I started cutting 5 1/2 inch squares of fabric, and on January 14th, I laid them out on the floor to determine a pattern. 

I soon realize I had I had way more fabric than I thought, and my lap blanket turned into a mash of enough fabric to make a 36 x 56 lapghan sized throw. That's a new word to me. I had mostly light blue pieces, with a bit of dark blue lightweight fabric from one of Lisa's skirts. I arranged and rearranged pieces until I found I had enough dark to make a dark X, going corner to corner.

5/1/24 - On the evening of May first 2024 first I completed stitching the final  border onto sides, leaving the corners unfinished, until I get direction from Irene or or Quitz.  I checked my seams and found a one-inch spot where I missed one layer of the border. I'll remove about three inches of seam and resew it.

6/14/24 - My first quilt is finally complete. I woke up at 3:10 this m orning and got up to finish tying my quilt. The final stitch was placed at 7:10am. I found a few corners stitches I wasn't happy with and decided to remove and replace them. I could have left them, and they would have been OK, but I knew I would notice them every time I looked at that quilt. I could have just chalked it up to first timers learning curve, but that wasn't the finished product I wanted.

The dark X that was planned, either got blended in or fabric pieces got rearranged or 9-square panels got turned.