We have a wedding in the family next month. It's for my husbands aunt and I thought that she deserved a quilt. I don't think one of my modern bright colored quilts would fit into her house so I dug through my stash and my small box of civil war prints. I was able to pull out the 30 fat quarters worth to make a queen sized Yellow Brick Road. I haven't made this quilt in years. Actually this was the first quilt pattern that I ever made all the way back in 2006 and it kicked off my whole sewing obsession.
I love the Yellow Brick Road pattern. It's fun to cut the strips, sew them together, cut again and before I knew it I had 100 blocks done! I chose this pattern because I knew it was fast and I didn't have any big pieces of fabric so this was perfect.
This is the first time I have put up a piecing wall. You really need to have something to lay this quilt out on because of the randomness of the blocks. It's easy to put 2 fabrics together and then it would drive me crazy. In my house there's not one wall that I can leave a piecing wall up. As it is you can tell there's a door behind this and it's a little too close to my wood stove which is running constantly from about Oct to April. I'm using batting for a king sized quilt. This winter my cat found the bin I kept it in tucked away under a table and unbeknownst to me had made it her bed. It got a little hairy and gross. I was planning on salvaging it for a smaller quilt but I think I will keep it for a piecing wall.
For pinning all the rows together my ring pincushion came in really handy. I made this one way back when I owned my fabric shop. But here's a tutorial on how to make one. Here's another tutorial too with a very cute idea instead of using rickrack.
I pinned all the rows together starting at the bottom and labeling each row. I wrote with permanent pen on the flower head pins the row number so I would know which row I was working on. I pulled each block off the wall and pinned it to the next.
I also wrote on the pattern which row was which number. I forget really quickly so this will help me remember I started with #1 at the bottom of the quilt. I've sewn 2 rows together and am hoping today I can get the rest completed. I've got less than a month to wrap this up so I'm trying to work on it as much as possible and not stress myself out at the last minute.
I love the Yellow Brick Road pattern. It's fun to cut the strips, sew them together, cut again and before I knew it I had 100 blocks done! I chose this pattern because I knew it was fast and I didn't have any big pieces of fabric so this was perfect.
This is the first time I have put up a piecing wall. You really need to have something to lay this quilt out on because of the randomness of the blocks. It's easy to put 2 fabrics together and then it would drive me crazy. In my house there's not one wall that I can leave a piecing wall up. As it is you can tell there's a door behind this and it's a little too close to my wood stove which is running constantly from about Oct to April. I'm using batting for a king sized quilt. This winter my cat found the bin I kept it in tucked away under a table and unbeknownst to me had made it her bed. It got a little hairy and gross. I was planning on salvaging it for a smaller quilt but I think I will keep it for a piecing wall.
For pinning all the rows together my ring pincushion came in really handy. I made this one way back when I owned my fabric shop. But here's a tutorial on how to make one. Here's another tutorial too with a very cute idea instead of using rickrack.
I pinned all the rows together starting at the bottom and labeling each row. I wrote with permanent pen on the flower head pins the row number so I would know which row I was working on. I pulled each block off the wall and pinned it to the next.
I also wrote on the pattern which row was which number. I forget really quickly so this will help me remember I started with #1 at the bottom of the quilt. I've sewn 2 rows together and am hoping today I can get the rest completed. I've got less than a month to wrap this up so I'm trying to work on it as much as possible and not stress myself out at the last minute.
