Joy posted: " I can finally show you some pics of the making, and finishing, of the herringbone wedding quilt for my niece and her husband! Last week when I was up in Cairns, my niece and her hubby flew up from Brisbane for the celebrations, and I got to give them " Days Filled With Joy
I can finally show you some pics of the making, and finishing, of the herringbone wedding quilt for my niece and her husband!
Last week when I was up in Cairns, my niece and her hubby flew up from Brisbane for the celebrations, and I got to give them their wedding quilt!
I had a few issues with this quilt.... it wasn't a hard one to make, but there were a few challenges.
First up, I asked the young couple to choose the pattern and fabric. They chose a herringbone pattern, and so I went looking for inspiration on the web.
The groom likes brown and the bride likes blue, so these were the fabrics they chose:
I did end up adding some more fabrics to it because I underestimated how much fabric I would need.... but by the time we were ready to leave for the wedding, I was still a bit of fabric short. So I left it home and bought more when we went up to Brisbane for the wedding.
Home again I realized I had forgotten to buy more cream... so the young ones went back to the shop, bought some more and sent it down...
So I finally had all (and more than) I needed and got busy again.
Cut more half square triangles:
Saved so much time using my Go!
And once I had enough blocks, tried to lay them out on our bed in some type of random order...
Loki tried to help, but really, he was a bit useless... (shhhhhh don't tell him I said that!)
Thankfully Dad came around and hung up my two design walls and so the blocks went up there:
I love my design walls!!! This was a big quilt, and they were so helpful.
I made a few mistakes - can you pick them in the photo above?
But not major ones...
My main struggle is to be random. I get obsessed about the colors/fabric not touching, being too close, etc.
I finally told myself to get over it and I got the top ready to quilt..
And then finished and ready to go in the suitcase to go to Cairns:
We arrived before the young couple, so I put it on their bed... and forgot to take a photo...!
After I got home I told my sister to get the two tallest people to hold it up while she took a photo... Now the young groom is very tall... so here is the behind the scenes photo of the holding up of the quilt:
The groom and his father-in-law. lol!!!!!
Last but not least, a photo of the completed quilt:
I'm glad I got the quilt done... and hope the next niece doesn't get married too soon! I must say I don't make large quilts very often, I prefer lap size... but I am still happy with how it turned out.
I do like the pattern and wouldn't mind making another using a layer cake like Jenny did in the video... one day!
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