Iron Board Cover

From almost a year I am procrastinating this project - making my own Iron Board Cover. Finally I got the urge to do it and two days later we have a brand new cover.

I saw this pattern on Craftsy and started off with V-shaped strips. Then I realized lots of fabric would be wasted with this and stopped following the pattern and went on adding strips and pieces however I pleased :-). That is the beauty of NOT following a pattern :-)).... you can just have fun with your fabrics.

But somehow I needed help with finishing the cover (how to add elastics) and I followed my favorite quilter Melissa @ happy Quilting's tutorial. You can find the link here.

Here is my finished cover:



I had to take the pictures outdoor as it was cloudy.

Somehow this cover reminds me of my old dress I had 14 years ago!!!! may be that's how I came up with these color combinations.

Anyway I hope I will enjoy my pressing time better than I used to and keep on admiring my work. Got to go press some clothes ;-))...

Thanks for stopping by and until next time, be good :-)

Jyothi

Irish Chain Quilt Along Big Finish!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes!!!!!!!!!!! The QAL (Done by Melissa at Happy Quilting)is over and I finished quilting and binding my little wall hanging. Just can't wait to share the finished piece with you :-).

After finishing all the blocks, it was time to put together everything  and somehow I didn't like the look of green  blocks. So replaced these yellow blocks with the green ones.



But again when I compared two pictures it felt like both looked great. But I just went ahead with the yellow ones.



But I didn't want to add the green blocks to the orphan blocks' group. There came the idea of using those for backing. The next moment I was there cutting some more green blocks from the remnants of green fabrics. When I put together all green blocks, it hit me that backing should be bigger than the front :-((.



So I used all of the extra fabrics and there came a beautiful backing. I just loved this and thought of using it as a separate quilt top. But somehow realized only greens would be monotonous and went ahead with my earlier idea of adding all patchwork blocks in the same quilt.

Since I don't do Free Motion Quilting (FMQ), I used walking foot to quilt.It took me almost a week to quilt the entire quilt. I know.....it is high time that I add up all the courage to work on FMQ.  Here is my big finish!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know that quilting isn't perfect. But I loved how it came out at the end. This is the first time I used sticking applique method. Petal works were too stiff and quilting on it didn't make any impressions. Now I know why starch method is better for quilting on it. There is always something to learn from every experience.

Here is the backing after finishing. I just loved those spiral quilting......can't stop looking at it :-)). I know it sounds crazy...but that's what most quilters like!!!!looking at their quilt for the 100th time :-).

Hope you liked my little project from this Quilt Along and see you next time :-)).

Till then be good :-)

Jyothi