Getting Down and Dirty...and covered in thread!

As you know, I’m making a quilt for my baby daughter (she’s four months old). If you saw my last main post, you know that I purchased and received the fabric a week or two ago. Now it’s time to get down and dirty, or covered in thread bits.

My Quilting Notebook

Before you can make a quilt, you must design a quilt. I completed the design for this quilt while my daughter was still kicking my ribs (inside the womb, not outside, like she does now). I’m not particularly good with numbers, and to make an quilt you must be. So while I was making up the design, my lovely husband (William) configured the dimensions for me. He loves numbers. Together, we came up with the Pinwheel Quilt.

I call this the Pinwheel Quilt lovingly, because I got the idea from MSQC (Missouri Star Quilt Company, you remember, ‘member). Their company blog has the best video tutorial on how to make Pinwheels. 

Pinwheel Quilt Version 1

Once you have the design you want, next is to figure out what color scheme you want. I put this step next because without a color scheme, you don’t know what kind of fabric to purchase. Our original color scheme was blue and purple, though as the months went by I landed on a different color scheme. This is what it looked like.

Version 1.1

When I was finally able to buy the fabric (the money finally available) I was lured in with a Daily Deal by MSQC and purchased a Charm Pack of solid colors for a buck. That’s how my Blue and Purple color scheme transformed into the pastel multicolor scheme you see in the supplies picture. So, now I have everything needed to complete Evelyn’s Quilt, on to the assembling.