New Skill: Stitch in the Ditch Quilting
As a young adult with no monies and a significant amount of college debt, it was impossible to justify dropping several hundred dollars on a sewing machine, especially since I didn’t have a specific project in mind. I typically have to alter clothing because nothing fits me correctly and was spending hours hand sewing random things that needed fixing or altering and would become frustrated because it would be so much faster if I had a machine.
Enter: the birthday fairies (my parents). They got me a machine for my birthday and I immediately started to work on a quilt, because why not?
I decided to make a quilt for my husband. His only requirement was that it should have a purple theme. I got to work trying to find discount fabrics and he got to work driving to another state for a work trip.
It was my first time making a quilt and it was a large one. Because of that, I kept the pattern simple. I finished it in just about three days.
I had intended to keep as much purple as I could in the quilt, but when I found the Robot/Lego fabric I knew I had to incorporate that somehow because it was so fun. I added the gray to balance the colors a bit more and I think it turned out just fine.
Fun fact: I was barely able to lay out the quilt to baste it on our little one bedroom apartment floor and it took forever to do so I’m glad he was gone for that.
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