Category Archives: in progress

Taking up all available floor space in my craft room, here’s the robot quilt sandwich – quilt top, cotton quilt batting, and the backing. I combined two fabrics from my pile of thrifted sheets to make the back. I hand-basted … Continue reading →

Yay! Now for the next step – basting and quilting the quilt. First I have to figure out where to buy batting, though. And what fabric I want to use for the back. I have a feeling this is going … Continue reading →

I have to be honest, I wasn’t entirely sure about this robot quilt for the first few rows of blocks. Then his face appeared out of four blocks, and I was reassured that it is really cute. I’ve decided to … Continue reading →

Making progress – 9 of 30 blocks done (unless I decide to lengthen the quilt, in which case I’m only at 9 of 35 blocks done…). Toes shown for scale.

Over the past few months, I’ve been tossing around the idea of learning how to quilt (or rather, putting the random scraps of knowledge in my head into practice and seeing if a quilt results). Through a happy convergence of … Continue reading →