Chevron quilt

Few months ago, I was on Pinterest and saw this cute chevron quilt and I decided I want to make it. Of course, I didn't pick the simple quilt to start, I jump ahead and do a hard one! Why do I do this? I don't know, the simple quilt wasn't cute enough for me. I was telling my grandma(in Utah) that I am going to make a chevron quilt. She said she have lots of fabrics that she have and won't use them and ask if I want them. She showed them to me and I told her that I would be happy to take them.  It wouldn't fit in my suitcase when I came home from Utah. My mom shipped the fabrics to me.

I organized all the fabric into color. You can say I am a little OCD, I like all the color together. For example when I eat dinner, I normally eat all the corn at once, than the chicken, etc. Does anybody else do that?  I borrowed a fabric cutter and board from Jennifer who gave it to me! It was so nice of her and I love the fabric cutter and board. I started cutting them and realized that I should iron the fabric to make the cutting much easier. As I am ironing them, the streams from the iron smell like grandma! You know that smell when you walk into grandma's house. It is grandma's smell. When she come over to my parents' house, I can even smell her before I see her. It brought up memories- grandma pulling out her fake teeth when I was a kid. I was curious with it. Easter times at grandma house, the Easter egg hunt, the youngest grandkid gets to go out first. I am the second youngest grandkids. It was so fun to see if you got candy or money in the eggs. Also many more memories!

I got the folding table and set it up in the family room, it took four long days to cut all the fabrics. Josh said it seem like I have been cutting them for 14 days instead.  I decided to cut them all at once instead cut them, sew them together and cut some more fabric. I had no idea how many fabric pieces I need for the quilt.

After cutting all the fabric, I was trying to decide how to pick the fabric to sew them together. I didn't want any same fabric piece touching each other. Josh said you got to mix all the fabrics up and just pick one and go from there. My OCD in my body scream NO but I did mix it them up. Josh had a great idea how to mix them up....throw them in the dryer. :) I would never thought of that.

 

 

I had a really rough start. I read the instruction on the website twenty thousand times and it took me about two hours to started. Once I sew a row, I got the hang of it and it got easier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After I was done with the top layer and it took me forever to do the next step which is quilt all three layers together. I push it off and off because I worked so hard on the top layer that I didn't want to mess up. A friend of mine told me about the fusible bedding that you can iron the top layer on the bedding. I ironed the layers together and put safety pins on. I finally had enough guts to go ahead and sew all three layers together. Also binding was last and easy to do. Now, I know what I should do next time. The quilt isn't perfect but it looks pretty good to me. I may do another quilt down the road or not. I haven't decide yet.

 

 

Thanks grandma for the fabric! Averie Jo and I love it!