Simply Retro Quilt Along

I am so glad that I signed up for this quilt along. 

 

 

 

 

Thanks Jana! Check out her blog and see what it's all about! There are lots of pics of other great projects, take a look here, here and on flickr!

 

I am not going to tell you that it's easy to keep up with these weekly postings but it's a great excuse to lose sleep! I am really enjoying myself working on these projects as well as learning new things and moving along very quickly.  The funny thing is every time I look ahead at the next project, I know exactly who is going to get it! 

 

Here is the second project in the book. If you are a quilter, a beginning quilter, this book is the perfect place to start working with patterns. Easy, Peasy!!

 

You start with squares.

 

 Lots of squares.

 

 

Group your squares.

 

Turn some into Half square Triangles.

 

 

Before you know it, you have a block!

 

 I did this whole quilt top last Saturday! I adapted the size to 36" x 48" for a baby quilt. I hope to get it done before the baby arrives. Congratulations Natalie and Jader!!

 

 

This quilt is such an optical illusion!  Can you see that?

 

I varied it slightly because I used two fabrics for each block because I didn't have enough of either to do the whole block the same. I really did run out of both! So the splash of color, which really is part of the design in the book, was the perfect plan for this one.

 

I am having toruble with the backing fabric because way back, I only bought 1 yard of fabric, which is just a little short for backing.  The other problem is I am on a Summer budget which does not allow for fabric purchase! (I buy in May, September and December) 

 

The froggy fabric is what I have enough of but I just don't know about that! What if the mom hates frogs?