Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Hey I am back and I am making a quilt!

So I know it has been a super long time since I made a post.  I am just not good at this, life has been so busy lately and it is just simpler to make a quick Facebook update.  BUT I am taking a short break from facebook this week (lots of cranky people) and have had some time to think. 

I started working on a quilt, MY FIRST quilt.  I am doing a denim/flannel rag quilt.  I almost have all the squares cut out, still need 32 squares of denim but I have cut up all of our ripped out jeans.  Trying to find some more jeans without buying them.  My squares are 6x6 and I need 192 squares of each denim and flannel.  I ended up buying some flannel at Wal Mart last night to finish cutting the squares.  I drew out my pattern on paper and I want to the flannel squares to make sense a bit, so they are in a pattern of sorts.  I can't wait until I can start sewing it all together!

Last night I tried my hand at signing one of the squares of denim.  I have MINIMAL sewing skills so I decided to just do a D and a heart for DeHart.  I am going to try to do 2013 on another square. 





I know it isn't that great of a picture, but I took it with my phone (hence the shadow on the picture).  But I think I did an alright job with it.  I don't know how to cross stitch or any of that so just stitched it.