Frank & Jessica’s quilt

The big quilting project I mentioned last week but wouldn’t share any details of was a little throw-sized quilt I was making for my friends Frank and Jessica as a wedding present. Since it was gifted to them on Saturday (at their lovely, fun, joyous wedding), now I can post a picture of it:

It’s done entirely by machine, for time reasons. I’d love to learn to quilt by hand one day (I’m particularly intrigued by a method called “English paper piecing”) but for now I don’t have the time or the  patience that goes into an entirely hand-pieced and quilted quilt – and I now have even  greater admiration for people who do! For those that are interested, the fabric is a bunch of fat quarters (14 or 15 in the end, I think) from Amy Butler’s “Daisy Chain” line, and the pattern is a variation on one called “Slanted Diamonds” from Marcia Hohn’s website The Quilter’s Cache.

I learned a lot working on this quilt (half-square triangles are harder than they look; the special quilting foot I bought for my sewing machine makes the seams too big; I’m good at the final step of hand-sewing the binding on; among many other things) and I’m excited about my next “big” project, which is a similarly-sized (but completely different fabrics & pattern) quilt for my sister, who is getting married on July 11th.