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WIP: Patience Corner Quilt

January 7, 2010 by Jodi Leave a Comment

I assembled the 6 blocks for the quilt already.  It really was fabulously easy.  Here are my progress pictures.  I’ve also been keeping track of time spent on it, because it is such a new style of sewing I have no sense of how much work it is.

I spent 1 hour shopping for fabric.  Most of it was bought from the red tag clearance section for 50% the marked down price (+plus another 20% off purchase coupon).

I washed a dried the pieces and then cut the appropriate number of 5″ squares- enough to make 6 blocks.  It took my 1 hour to do this cutting.

Once they were cut, I fussed with the layout.  I didn’t time this.  It was one of those things were I walked away from it a lot and then came back… etc…

BTW, I referenced the above picture many times while I piecing all the squares together.  It was a great help in keeping things in the order that I wanted too.  I will be doing that with any future quilts too.

I chain pieced them into rows… (1 hour)

… then the rows into blocks. (another hour)

Once I had them in blocks I realized I only had 2 variations of blocks ( 3 each).  It could have saved me time to know this before I started, but I am learning.

Once I had the blocks I split them into quarters and rotated those quarters according to the directions in Sew Hip.  It took me another hour to do all 6 squares.

Then I pieced together the blocks.  This took me about a half an hour.

It was a bit more green than I envisioned in the store, but I still love it.  And I am pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to piece a quilt.  Which makes me hope that the actual “quilting” of it goes as smoothly.  I don’t even know where to begin with that.  I would prefer machine quilting to try out my new walking foot, but I don’t know what type of design to follow.  But I won’t get ahead of myself… up next the border!

The next step is to add an 8 inch border. The floral purple fabric should help those little purple squares pop more.

But maybe it needs a thinner border between them to separate the little squares from the border?  I’m not sure that I care enough to put the effort into that.  My daughter will love it no matter what.

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