The Second Challenge in the project quilting world is red white and blue or any combination of those colors. I decided I could play around with red and white since Valentine's Day is just around the corner.
I have the Twister template small and thought it would make a fun valentine heart wall hanging. I gathered together 5 inch red squares and white fat quarters that were in my stash and took it all down down to St George Utah for our annual Night Group quilting retreat.
I asked one of my friends if I could borrow her twister book but alas she couldn't find it so I figured I could just wing it with images on Pinterest.
Had the grid all laid out and sewn together then came my first mistake! In order to make sure that you have a nice image you have to make sure that your Border in this particular quilt is white, otherwise confusion Reigns. I chose to use one of my very favorite Fabrics in red, oh no!
Second thing you needed a much larger space than we had at the condo to lay out and cut so, I decided I would just hold off until I got home on Saturday evening, surely I could finish it up by then.
And then came my third problem I never realized or even thought about the fact that I would need to cut each row, lay them out and then a smart quilter would then sew each row together before they start thi next row, I wasn't a very smart quilter that day. So I got them all cut and had a big jumbled mess and being tired from our trip back from St George I decided to go on to bed and sleep on it I realize by then that my first border which is red with was a mistake and was going to cause me no end of confusion.
So I wasn't able to get my quilt completed by the Sunday at 11 Mountain Time deadline. But I decided I was going to go ahead and finish it up with all its flaws and difficulties. So there you go the story of my red and white Valentine's Day project quilting challenge.
I have the Twister template small and thought it would make a fun valentine heart wall hanging. I gathered together 5 inch red squares and white fat quarters that were in my stash and took it all down down to St George Utah for our annual Night Group quilting retreat.
I asked one of my friends if I could borrow her twister book but alas she couldn't find it so I figured I could just wing it with images on Pinterest.
Had the grid all laid out and sewn together then came my first mistake! In order to make sure that you have a nice image you have to make sure that your Border in this particular quilt is white, otherwise confusion Reigns. I chose to use one of my very favorite Fabrics in red, oh no!
Second thing you needed a much larger space than we had at the condo to lay out and cut so, I decided I would just hold off until I got home on Saturday evening, surely I could finish it up by then.
And then came my third problem I never realized or even thought about the fact that I would need to cut each row, lay them out and then a smart quilter would then sew each row together before they start thi next row, I wasn't a very smart quilter that day. So I got them all cut and had a big jumbled mess and being tired from our trip back from St George I decided to go on to bed and sleep on it I realize by then that my first border which is red with was a mistake and was going to cause me no end of confusion.
So I wasn't able to get my quilt completed by the Sunday at 11 Mountain Time deadline. But I decided I was going to go ahead and finish it up with all its flaws and difficulties. So there you go the story of my red and white Valentine's Day project quilting challenge.
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