Finally Finished...

This is the quilt that Satan really did not want me to finish. It took FOREVER. But I finally got it done and I am sooooo happy!!! It was definitely longer than 10 hours. It was probably longer than all my other projects put together. My grandma and I spent 6 hours alone just drawing out the design and cutting the scraps of fabric from her closet.

The scraps are probably my favorite part. I have pieces of fabric from my blessing dress, and a quilt that my mom made, and my grandma's trek dress, and a bunch of other things. My other favorite part was that she wrote part of the Young Women's theme in the border. Oma Kim is amazing.

This is what it started out as... just a big piece of paper in a drawing.


Then I sewed the blocks together and that took FOREVER, especially because I sewed the first six squares and then found out that I was sewing a 1/2 inch seam instead of 1/4 inch, and the squares were way too small. By an inch. So I unpicked all but two of them and resewed them. Then, when I was stuck at home while the rest of my family was in Lake Powell, I finished all the squares and left them laid out on the basement floor like this... and Zoee had a little accident on them. Actually, a big accident. Zoee's babysitters washed the squares but it didn't help. So I resewed six more squares. I was so mad.

This is what it looked like before the border was on. I was sick of it and ready to be done with it at this point. Until I found the border, which I am IN LOVE WITH.

Ironing the binding.

The border that I am IN LOVE WITH and the theme in the brown.

I decided that I am really grateful to have such awesome Omas. They are all amazing. I love them a ton. And my mom is really awesome for keeping me sane while I was resewing the whole quilt. Plus she passed on her sewing skills to me. I am related to some pretty awesome people. :)