Like many quilters I am working on a lot of things at the same time. I finally want to make my very first quilt top into a quilt!
I used four pre- cut packages of 2.5'' fabric strips, two are Kona solids white and the other two are the beautiful
Oakshott fabrics in various shades of blue. All bought in my favourite local quilt shop
Quilt Cabin in Dortmund.
I started this quilt over a year ago now. I took photos of the process already as I kind of knew I would write a blog eventually. (Just look how super new and complete dust free my sewing machine looks!!!)
I got inspired by the book 'Little Bits Quilting Bee' by Kathreen Ricketson, founder of
WhipUp.net. Her quilt 'Step lively' is made from jelly rolls too, here's a
link to a photo of it.
I included white squares and between every blue strip there will be a white strip.
It gets me now that the very first quilt top I made was my own design already, I only followed the principles of the method used in Kathreen's book, I guess that's not too bad!
Sadly Kathreen passed away last year just shortly after I discovered her blog and it's really great to see that her blog is being continued and will inspire many quilters and crafters around the world. I bet she would be proud.
I mentioned this quilt top already in my
very first blog post, I left it laying for quite some time as it got too big for me to handle at the time. Now looking at it I thought it still is too small to fit our king size bed so I just cut it down to a lap quilt size and that works better.
I have the quilt sandwich ready for quilting and soon it will be finished! Yay!
