So I fell in love with this quilt idea several months before we were even pregnant. So when we got pregnant and found out it was boy I got started on this "24 hour quilt." I started it in April. I just finished it yesterday, July 9. Yeah... leave it to me to take a simple project and make it very difficult. I kinda took pictures along the way. I'm very happy with how it turned out!
This part I could handle. Cutting the gray and teal fabric to be the same size.
I didn't take pictures (probably because I was too frustrated) of the most challenging part for me which was cutting and sewing the white "patches" on each side of the quilt. The corners kept gathering. I finally went to my amazing mom and had her help me fix it! This is the point were I just wanted to hand it off to her and say please finish it but I continued forward...
Here's my little helper. He isn't supposed to touch the fabric or the crib. Parenting is going so well for us!
Next, I lined up the fabric and two layers of batting. To keep them lined up while sewing I had to loosely hand stitch the layers together.
Next, we spent several evenings sewing back and forth across the quilt.
Then I trimmed the edges off the sides of the quilt. I cut and sewed the edging together and attached it the gray side of the quilt. Lastly I hand stitched the other side of the edge to the teal side.
After all this work I am very happy with it. Hopefully Finn appreciates it someday soon!
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