The Material Girl

The State Quilt

So I've been working on this quilt that will eventually go to a kid in a family that lives here in town but hit some hard times. I thought of her when I was going through my stash one day and wanted to make quilts for her and her 6 siblings. It just seems like a good teenage girl quilt. So far I've got 8 out of 16 blocks done, and I'm a little over halfway done with the 9th. It's taking me about 1 night after work per block since they're all different, but I'm having a lot of fun with it! Let me know what you think!

Not sure which state this is, need to look it up

Same here...need to look it up

And again! You'd think I'd keep better notes!

Kansas

New Jersey

Ohio

California

Virginia

So, the sashing will be black and blue, and I haven't decided how to quilt it yet. I'm getting close to the wire on time to get this finished, so I might send it out of house for that.

So far, I like the look of the Jersey block the best, but it was a real pain! The blocks were parts of a kit that I picked up on the '05 Central Illinois Shop Hop. Of course, at the time my intentions were to go right home and make it up. LOL I didn't have anyone in mind for it then, though, and as much as I love Moda marbles, I don't want this in my house. Working on this after fleece season has reminded me just how much I do love quilting, and especially sampler type quilts.

I'm currently working on the Hoosier block, hope to get it finished tonight. They've got a nice little block over there in Indiana ;) Haven't gotten to the Illinois block yet, but I'm sure it will be boring and flat, right?

I'd really like to finish all of the blocks up this weekend and get started on the sashing, so I could have it done by the following weekend. I have the week of Thanksgiving off from work, but will have the baby all day and I'm not sure how much I can get done with him keeping me busy.

Somebody tell me what my next project should be!

Posted by tomiandc at November 12, 2008 11:32 AM