I am learning a lot

My second quilt is a yellow nine patch made with a Moda fabric.

I am not sure how it happened but my yellow quilt....
Turned out pink.

Mind blowing I tell you.

I wanted to work on making my squares match up where they are supposed to be. 

It helped. 

I needed to figure out if I could do any quilting myself. 

I wanted to know how to do the quilting with both my walking foot

and free motion quilting with my darning foot. 

The quilt has been a huge, and I mean HUGE, learning experience.

I learned that I needed to be able to see where I am going and I needed to

modify my darning foot.
I modified it by using the scroll saw to cut an opening in the front.

It worked like a charm.

I have learned that I like my walking foot. It is pretty cool. 

I learned how to stipple on my quilt with free motion quilting.

But, most of all I learned to use my seam ripper. 

A lot.

I also figured out how to order thread online when I ran out. 

It was too far to drive to get more.
I had to be very patient waiting for the order to arrive. 

I had a major OOPS on the quilt.

I scrunched up the back when I was quilting it and had to figure out a way to fix it.

I actually accomplished the repair and finished the quilt.

I took out all the stitches in the area and then ironed the material back toward the

seam on the pieced back.

I was able to scrunch the excess fabric under the seam

and whip stitch it in place.

I then re-quilted over the top of it and then added one

more seam just to make me happy.

I cannot ever give it as a gift, but it is repaired and you can barely see it.
I still need to work on some things like....
binding and thread tension...Ugh.

All things considered, I am pleased with the way it came out.

My daughter is too.

 This is why I make quilts.