{"id":14389,"date":"2015-01-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/?p=14389"},"modified":"2022-06-19T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:05:26","slug":"my-second-ever-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/my-second-ever-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting on my second ever quilt – a WIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So I'd been keeping my eye open for a beginner design that appealed to me. \u00a0Because I can't get quilting fabrics on the island, I had already decided I would want to buy a ready made kit to make sure I had everything I needed and that all of the fabrics co-ordinated well. \u00a0It's certainly possible to mix and match fabrics to buy online<\/a>, but buying a ready made kit with the pattern and everything certainly makes life easy.<\/p>\n

I was looking for something that had a mix of both modern and vintage to it, square blocks and no difficult shapes or joins, but at the same time pretty and interesting, \u00a0Then I saw the Cherie Jubilee beginner quilt kit at Fort Worth Fabric Studio <\/a>and I was sold.<\/p>\n

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It has such a pretty mix of colors, with both very modern fabrics (bicycles!) and more traditional floral too. \u00a0Fort Worth Fabric Studio also supplies the extra wide fabric to use as a single piece backing so I took that option as well so that I didn't have to piece together the back and have seams.<\/p>\n

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I admit, I did sit and look at it for a couple of hours before I plucked up the courage to cut up all the fabric. \u00a0I was undecided whether I should cut each block at a time, or whether I should cut up all the fabric and then sew the lot. What if I made a huge mistake! \u00a0Panic and self doubt… \u00a0But I do like to be efficient in the sewing room because time is limited for all of us, so I went for it and cut up the whole lot at once. \u00a0I was really pleased that I had a LOT\u00a0of fabric left over so if I had made a mistake, there was enough to get me out of trouble, and more.<\/p>\n

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Then the sewing. \u00a0It was quick, fun and stress-free. \u00a0No complicated corners, nothing that had to match exactly or it would all be a disaster, plenty of options to make it just how you wanted it, mix and match fabrics, turn blocks in any direction you like – the perfect beginner quilt pattern. \u00a0All my blocks worked out just fine. \u00a0Here they are all laid out on the table in the right order. \u00a0I need a bigger table clearly – or maybe a big quilt design wall!<\/p>\n

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It almost looks a bit jumbled up laid out like this but once the white sashing is added, wow, it really pops and makes the shapes and colors look so much nicer. \u00a0I hadn't been sure about all that white sashing before, but once it was sewn- yes, its perfect. \u00a0So pretty in fact that I entirely forgot to take a picture \u00a0\ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

But it's all put away for now until I can find time to clear the dining room table and spread everything out ready for the layering and quilting. \u00a0Then you'll get to see how pretty it looks. \u00a0I'm excited about it now. \u00a0Be back soon with the finished quilt pics.<\/p>\n

Get the Cherie Jubilee Quilt Kit here<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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I wasn’t sure if I would ever make another quilt. \u00a0My first one had turned out OK despite several trials and errors (especially errors) along the way, but it hadn’t especially been something I wanted to repeat. \u00a0Until that is, I gave it away to a friend for a baby \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[87,70,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73572,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389\/revisions\/73572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}