Very excited that I finally have this quilt finished.

It was fun to make and really turned out bright and happy!

Blueprint/Craftsy had a special on this quilt kit by Angela Waters for such a low price I couldn’t pass it up. My daughter Jes had asked me to make her a wall hanging for the guest bedroom wall. You might remember I made her this quilt and I was supposed to make her a smaller one so she could use it for a wall hanging.

I thought this was perfect.

As you can see from the above picture of Angela Waters holding the quilt, it’s supposed to have a background of gray but I thought Jes would like a white background better and I just happened to have two yards of white quilting fabric in my stash. (I already have plans for the gray!)

I added a sleeve on the back for a curtain rod.

Mistakes were made! (I think I’ll just start a subheading every time I post with that title!)

I always wash my fabric before I use it although I have read several times that you really don’t need to. I just do not want to put all that work into a quilt and then have the vivid colors bleed into the white. Well, all those bright colors are from a “jelly roll” which is a bunch of strips of fabric that are 2 1/2″ x 44″. Those strips of fabric FRAYED and shrunk. What a mess. Bits of colorful string and fluff everywhere. (The lint roller moved from the laundry room to the sewing room!) Plus I had to adjust the pattern to take into account that the strips were now 2 1/4″ wide so the quilt is smaller than it should be. Decided that in the future, I’ll cut my own strips from my pre-washed fabric!

Then when I started squaring up the quilt after all the stitching was done, it got even smaller! Yikes!

But…..it’s supposed to be a wall hanging. So smaller could be better. (I do like to look at the bright side whenever possible!)

Even with all that, I love it. But it’s going away! (How many quilts do I need?) Good bye to all that prettiness!

Ending on a happy note here, I have enough of those bright strips left to make another quilt! (I’ve already started stitching them together.) And I have the gray fabric for the background! Maybe a little larger quilt for a bed. Another Win-Win!