Project Quilting 11.5

When the challenge was announced, I had just finished this single basket... so, when I heard that we were to make something to give away, I thought I'd do the second basket as the challenge... 

 

I completed the second basket and decided that I could do better.  After working on a couple of other projects, Wednesday, I decided I'd do something else for the challenge... a cross wall hanging that I've been wanting to make for my oldest daughter. 

Well, this cross ended up being another PITA pattern for me.  It seemed so simple when looking at the cover picture with the pattern, but trust me, it wasn't as simple as that.

I had more of some strips than needed, some that were cut at the wrong size ( what the pattern called for) and the center pieces were supposed to be 6 1/2" x 6 1/2" on the top and 6 1/2" x 18 1/2" on the bottom BUT the directions told me to cut them at 4 1/2" x 16 1/2"!!  Well, no wonder some of the pieces didn't fit...... arghhhh

I finally had it figured out... using colored pencils and coloring strips on a paper graph helped a LOT.

Went to hang the fourth section (lower right) up and it was longer than the third (lower left).  I quickly calmed down and looked back at my chart... OOPS!  I had left off a strip at the top of the third section.  It was laying there right next to my machine, but so were other strips that I didn't even need.

I quickly added the strip and everything fit together like it was supposed to.

Because there's already a quilt on my mid-arm (Mo'e) and this is a smallish (29" x 36") quilt, I decided to quilt it on my DM... here it is all ready to go.

I just did stitch in the ditch around the green squares and rectangles and then went back and did some straight stitching following the 'lines' in the green pieces.  I love how it turned out ( the quilting part that is)

Got the label, hanging sleeve and binding on... hung it up on my design wall for a final photo......

and then realized that I had put the label and the hanging sleeve on the wrong ends!!!!  Sigh :( .  

Since they are both double stitched into the binding, I would have to take the binding completely off to correct it and that's not happening.  The next time I go over to Walmart, I'll look for some white 'bone' rings and sew one in each correct upper corner.  It's still going to my daughter and when I tell her what all was going on while I was doing this, she will understand.  ( We were expecting identical twin great granddaughters but got news this morning that the mother went into labor at 22? weeks and the twins won't make it & she's fighting an infection that could kill her.)

So, I've shut my sewing room down for at least today... I don't want to mess up another project.

take care....

ttyl....