I’ve always wanted to make a gingham quilt. There’s something about gingham that says summertime to me. I’ve read several tutorials and to be honest just felt overwhelmed. So many squares to cut and piece! But I knew that if I put the time in it would be worth it and wow, was I right!
I chose the colors for this quilt without a recipient in mind. The shades of purple and lilac say “spring” to me. I took the time to plan out my pattern and figured out how much fabric I needed. Basically for gingham you need a dark and a light shade with white for the background. I went with 6 inch squares, 1/4 seams, 7 rows across and 9 rows down. The finished size is very generous and bigger than my usual baby quilts. In fact, I ended up about 6 inches short for my backing fabric so I created a patchwork row that I added about 1/3 of the way down on the back of the quilt. This allowed the backing to be a tad larger than the quilt top.
After quilting and binding (with the cutest blue and purple floral fabric), I squared up my edges. And what a bummer to see the patchwork row on the back was not quite centered.
After some thought I decided to add a simple fabric heart hand stitched on the white block of my patchwork row. The hand stitching is clearly just that, done by hand.
It’s far from perfect and I even considered taking it off. But in the end, this quilt is hand made. It’s not perfect but it’s still warm and snuggly and it was made with love.
Is it for sale? If so, I know someone who would like to buy it!
Hee hee 😉
Really beautiful. The heart makes it!
Thanks Diane!