Last month I joined a group on Facebook called “Humble quilts”. They specialize in miniature sized quilts. I thought this would be a good fit. I didn’t realize how right I was until I started my first quilt a long with them!

I was not able to start the quilt a long with everyone else due to my work schedule being a bit crazy but as soon as I had a day off; I was off and running! The quilt a long was called “Palmateer Point” and was based off an antique quilt that the blogger/ group owner found. She didn’t reveal the design until the final post on her blog. I thought that was a great touch seeing as this was supposed to be a very “scrappy” quilt.

I used this quilt top as a way to use up scraps in my stash(most of which were civil war era patterns). I used up quilt a bit and was happily surprised that most was well coordinated. I was very worried that I would have to run out and buy more fabric and the goal of this years quilting has been to use up the mountain of stash fabric I have instead of adding to it. I have chosen the binding fabric but I have to dig more to figure out what backing fabric to use. So onto my finished quilt top (it has yet to be quilted):

Here are the blog entries for the quilt a long as well. This was a good stepping stone for me as a beginner quilter transitioning into more complicated work and refining my techniques. So if you are a beginner just pace yourself and remember the original was not perfect either! So breathe!

Introduction:

http://humblequilts.blogspot.com/2017/09/palmateer-point-quiltalong.html

Part one:

http://humblequilts.blogspot.com/2017/09/palmateer-point-quiltalong-part-1.html

Part two:

http://humblequilts.blogspot.com/2017/09/palmateer-point-quiltalong-part-2.html

Part three:

http://humblequilts.blogspot.com/2017/09/palmateer-point-part-3.html

Part four:

http://humblequilts.blogspot.com/2017/10/palmateer-point-part-4-and-finale.html

Quilt reveal and Link party:

http://humblequilts.blogspot.com/2017/10/palmateer-point-linky-party.html

 

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the next adventure report!