Amelia - Lap Quilt in Progress

Here are some blocks that I worked on for my very first lap quilt. It's for Punkie since the fabric line is called "Amelia".

After my fat quarter issue, my husband figured out the math for me; along with tips from others and everything is working out. But (there's always a "but"), I'm short fabric. I don't know what I did wrong or what I did right but I'm short. There is good news though. I have some leftover yardage from this fabric line that I intended to make into a pillowcase - I already made Amelia one but I was going to make two of them. I will use the extra yardage and create the strips that I need. Hopefully I can mix the blocks up enough so you won't really see the repetitiveness of the strips that I'm going to use. I doubt you will. There's so much going on in the pattern, I don't think that's going to be a problem.

Since I'm back to work, my sewing will only happen on the weekends now unless I get a few moment here and there during the week. I hope to have the top pieced together in a couple of weeks and then I can order the yardage for the border, back and binding. Then I need to figure out how to quilt this sucker. I have decided that my machine is just too small to quilt large items (that's my way of hinting that I really need a new machine) or that I'm just not talented enough to figure out how to quilt large items on my machine in an easy way. My machine is good for small stuff but I think I will have major headaches trying to quilt this. So, I may just have it quilted by someone else. I have some time to decide.

I'm just excited to be working on a lap quilt, my fabric issue was figured out AND my blocks are actually coming out (pretty close) square! BONUS! LOL.

Enjoy your day!

Jen