Wedding Quilts

I start out each quilt by discreetly investigating the favorite colors of the bride and groom. After that, Mom and I look for patterns and fabric together. She cuts the fabric into little pieces for me, and then I start to sew them together. This was the beginning of a quilt for a coworker who liked green, and her fiance who liked orange.

This pattern was gorgeous, but a huge pain in the neck. You had to pay particular attention to the symmetry of everything, and a mistake could mean a huge amount of rework (depending on how late you caught it). You also had to iron and sew a lot.

Fun fact: I watched the entire Hunter X Hunter series while making this quilt.

Once I had a bunch of half-hexagons sewed together, I started to lay them all down on a queen-size top sheet. Thankfully, my roommate and I have a convenient, huge vacant room in the basement that nobody was using. Not so thankfully, this meant subjecting my poor knees to hard linoleum floors every time I wanted to place a half hexagon or move things around. Just thinking about it hurts.

All laid out! Originally I had the light green in the brown corner, and vice versa. One of my coworkers suggested that I switch the two, and he was totally right. My knees were not happy, though.

After laying it out, you sew it into strips. You then sew those strips to each other, and those strips to each other... eventually you have the full quilt top.

This is my next project! It's not for a wedding this time, but I have a recipient in mind.

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