pretending to know how to make a quilt...

so far so good. this little project is coming together very well...see i haven't been doing absolutely nothing during my blogging absences.

so the quilt has a back, a semi quilted front (if you call a lovely big strip of lara cameron designed fabric down the centre quilting...then thats what it is), a bit of cotton wadding sandwiched in the middle and a whole bunch of pins holding it all together. i didn't have a fancy foot for the machine (like you're apparently supposed to), i just backed off the tension slightly & increased the stitch length...not sure if thats right, but it seems to work really well.

this bit was easy, the sewing was a little more difficult. i started in the centre, following the grids in the white cotton fabric, but trying to squish all that fabric through the sewing machine was an obstacle. when you start in the middle, you end up with all the sides gathering under the arm of the sewing machine, makes it a little difficult to stop it from bunching.

i'm still quilting away...not sure what to do with the centre panel yet as i don't want to disrupt the design with patches of sewed bits, i'll keep thinking about that one. next will be the binding, i hear lots of horror stories about binding so i'm a little aprehensive. hopefully i'll have a finished picture to show you by next week. i want to give it a wash & see if i get all that lovely crinklyness in between the sewn lines that you often see with quilts...we'll see!

plus i have heaps of pics of fabric i've been buying up & the long list of things to make out of them is growing. there's going to be a lot of christmas sewing i think!