Car Quilt-Straight

This is a quilt I started because I was at a standstill on all of the rest of my quilts, either because I needed my design board to be able to continue, or I needed a hoop for quilting, or I was dreading doing the binding. I decided I needed to do something with all of the fabrics I had acquired from Walmart. Most of the fabrics were acquired for making coin purses, but that project has since fallen by the wayside. I knew a good portion of these fabrics were of rather poor quality, so I immediately called it my car quilt.

I wanted to try something I had never done before, which left a lot of options open since I haven't done much quilting yet. So I sat down with some grid paper and went to town drawing up some options. I settled on a 9-patch option, with a few other designs for something else in the future.

This then had me trying to decide between a straight 9-patch or on point. Doing it on point would give me experience in yet another thing I had not tried yet. So to solve the problem I counted the number of cars we have. 1...2...perfect, I can try both. The Car Quilt-On Point will be blogged about at a later date. You know, once I actually start it.

With this decided, I had to decide on the size. I knew I wanted the finished product to be about 70"x70", so as my family grows it will still be big enough for a picnic in the park (or the backyard). I then took my regular scissors (because it had been instilled in me the difference between regular scissors and fabric scissors since I was a tiny person) and I cut 3 sets of paper examples to finished sizes (1" and 3", 1.5" and 4.5", and 2" and 6") and determined I wanted the 1.5" inch little squares with finished blocks at 4.5". I then spent the next 2 weeks cutting out 2" and 5" squares.

This quilt has lead me on the quite the adventure thusfar, but this is where I will leave you for now, as I really don't wish my posts to get too long.