Quilt Fail seems to be turning into a Quilt Save?!

Last week after I posted pictures of my quilt falling apart after it had been washed and dried, Mary emailed me and said she thought the rips could be fixed! Today I went into Sew to Speak while she was working and she helped me fix it. She suggested that I might want to go back through and add more hand stitches with the perle cotton and I do think I'm going to take her advise. Hopefully that will help toughen up this quilt! Below I have attached a picture of the worst rip that needed to be fixed. I can't thank Mary enough for all of her help!

 

BEFORE                               AFTER

Quilt Fail

This morning I finished the binding for this quilt I've been working on for the last few months. I put it in the washer & dryer only to find about 5 spots where my fabric pulled away from each other on the top layer. I'm not sure if this quilt is worth saving since there are so many rips in it. This was a bittersweet lesson to learn. The next time I make a quilt I'm going to give every line I sew a good tug to make sure it doesn't look like there is any chance of it pulling apart. Overall I had a wonderful time working on this quilt and I learned a lot. I'm honestly just sad that a lot of fabric was wasted. I think it's time to set this project to the side and figure out what to do with it later on.

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(Top side of the quilt)

 

(Bottom side of the quilt)

 

My quilt made an appearance on Mary's blog Molly Flanders!

My wonderful teacher, Mary, took pictures of our quilts on our last day of class. By the end of that class I finished sewing one side of the binding. The only thing left to do is hand quilt the other side. Now I just need to find time to do that!

http://mollyflanders.blogspot.com/2012/06/sharing-love.html

new project - single girl quilt

At the end of March I'm going to start a new quilt. I'm taking another one of Mary's classes at Sew to Speak. I bought the Single Girl Quilt Pattern a long time ago with the goal of learning how to quilt at some point. The other day I found this pattern and looked at it. There are a ton of directions and I started to feel a little overwhelmed. Later on that day, I checked the upcoming class list at Sew to Speak & found out they were going to have a class for the very same quilt I was previously looking at. Since the class isn't full, I decided to sign up and learn how to make the quilt that I'm still pretty sure is above my skill level. Here is a picture of some of the fabric I plan on using. I'm going big with this quilt. I plan on using it on my bed, so I'm going to try to make a queen size version of it. (yikes!)