Almost three weeks ago, I had surgery. The week of surgery, I was working on the quilt for our motorhome. I decided I really wanted to be able to *finish* something before surgery.
I started working on our newest (not-yet-born) niece's quilt. I loved the pattern and how easily it came together so much, that I decided to make myself a recovery quilt.
I used the
Layer Lemonade Quilt Pattern. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this pattern. If you have a 40 piece layer cake (I have a couple that are 20 pieces of fabric), the top whips up in about an hour or so.
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| I used the Canyon fabric for this quilt. |
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| The lighter fabrics |
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| The darker fabrics |
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| What I decided for the backing, binding, & thread |
One of the things I wanted to do with this quilt was to use up some of my left over batting from some other projects. I laid out a bunch of scrap pieces (over the top of the quilt) and figured out what would need to go where.
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| The perfect layout of the batting. |
I love Google and Pinterest. You can learn how to do ANYTHING! In order to use scrap batting, you have to sew it together using a zig-zag stitch.
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| Zig-zagging my way to the perfect piece of batting. |
Once I was done with piecing the batting, I laid everything out, pinned all of the layers together, and started quilting it all. I pieced the binding together & bound it as well.
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| The quilt top when I was finished with it |
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| Everything laid out |
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| David thinks it's for him |
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| And done! - top |
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| Done! |
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| Done - back |
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| I love the subtle print on the binding. |
All told, I think I had about 6 hours into this quilt. Maybe a little less. Nice and quick! Of course, I don't do fancy quilting (I'm going to be doing a class on free motion quilting soon), so that lessens the time as well.
The quilt did a great job of helping me recover. I was so happy I had it. Now to get a couple of others finished!
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