Slow Start

Okay, so I haven't posted every day :) I wanted to gather some of my projects together so I would have a few posts to get started. Since it was a holiday weekend, I spent more time with family than with my crafts. Today I thought I would share my most recent project.

My sister just had a new baby and I wanted to make her something. I have been seeing rag quilts all over other craft blogs and Pinterest, so I thought I would try my hand at it. I think it turned out rather well even if it doesn't look the same in "real" life as it did in my head.

Here it is.

I bought a jelly roll on clearance at WalMart and laid the strips out in the order I wanted them. I was two strips short, so I made the "odd" strips the center and worked the design out that way. Each strip has it's same design as its back.

I put a layer of batting between the strips and sewed down the middle to sandwich the strips together. Then I sewed all the strips together with a half inch seam. After I had all the strips sewn together I squared up the short ends and then sewed a half inch seam down each end. I mainly did this because binding scares me :)

I then sat down to watch a movie and snipped around all the edges. This was the most time consuming part of the quilt. I didn't measure my cuts, I just eyeballed about 1/4 inch distance between. After all the cuts were made I washed and then dried the finished quilt to "rag" the snipped edges.

I think it turned out rather nicely and I hope my sweet niece loves it!


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