DIY Triangle Quilt: I Did It!

Well, I think I surprised every last person who knows me by sewing my first {yes, I plan to have more to come} quilt in about 2.5 weeks!

I was inspired by Happy Together's quilt and followed her tutorial to a T.  I really loved her color scheme so I tried to replicate it as well.  Why mess with a good thing?

With David's help, we hit up three quilt stores to find the perfect colors and purchased a cutting mat and rotary cutter.

It took me a couple of hours a night for about a week & a half to cut and pin the triangles together.  I'm so thankful David helped me along the way.  I think I've mentioned a time or two that he's the best.

The sewing started off very slow and rocky.  I was jamming the bobbin every couple minutes and I even broke my needle.  Once I actually read the manual {I know, I know] I realized that I had the tension dial set wrong AND I threaded the needle incorrectly.  Whoops.  Total beginner here.  After I fixed those things the sewing moved much faster!

The part I hated the most, and ultimately passed on to my husband, was the ironing of all the connected seams.  Once I got the front and back finished sewed to each other, I then sewed the binding to the quilt and then had to hand-stitch the perimeter of the binding to it.

The hand-stitching took me about 5 hours in one night.  I'm just a tad bit determined and antsy to finish things so I made sure that I started right when we put Theron to bed and then eventually finished in the wee hours of the next morning.  It probably took me a lot longer because I had to watch YouTube tutorials {this one and this one were super helpful!} nearly 100 times to figure out just what the heck I was doing.

But I did figure it out and it doesn't look bad.  I'm just as shocked as the next person.

I am beyond shocked that I did this myself and cannot wait to start on my next sewing adventure.  I'm slightly addicted!

xoxo