u/ackley14

Image 1 — Quilt for my cousin's daughter. She just turned 2! This is my third quilt!
Image 2 — Quilt for my cousin's daughter. She just turned 2! This is my third quilt!

Quilt for my cousin's daughter. She just turned 2! This is my third quilt!

I wanted to make a quilt as a gift and an opportunity sprung with my cousin's daughter turning 2 last month. So I decided to make her this quilt! It's my third quilt ever.

No specific pattern, but i did use my quilt tool https://ackley14.github.io/quiltthing/ to figure out how i wanted to lay everything out.

This was also my first go at HSTs and so my corners are....a bit off lol.

overall i'm pleased! its corners are not perfectly squared up but none of my quilts seem to be haha. and the top stitching doesn't really match the lines but that was because my corners didn't line up perfectly and i figured straight lines were better than janky lines .

also my first time doing sashing or corner stones. was a big learning experience but a lot of fun!

u/ackley14 — 13 hours ago

Created a simple tool to help figure out if you can do a diagonal cut/slide/stitch to make your quilt backing from your stock fabric without patching it together.

https://preview.redd.it/izel850gi01h1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b05e9f6be8cce3da54868bb7b31f9a908562e45

I created this tool because i didn't buy enough fabric to easily make my backing what i would call the traditional way (cut in half, stitch back into rectangle). i found some talk online of a way to cut your stock fabric corner to corner but i couldn't wrap my head around figuring out if i could even do that at all. Now i can! hope you all can make some use of this! - note, the units are agnostic. all that matters is that when you do this, if you do cm do everything in cm, inches, do everything in inches.
https://ackley14.github.io/diagonalbackingCut/

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