I fell in love with it. Unfortunately, The Great American Quilt Factory didn't have any of the fabric left on the bolt. The only fabric left was in a pack of 6 fat quarters. I bought it. I wasn't sure at the time what I was going to do with it, but I bought it anyway.
I still wasn't sure what I was going to do with the fabric when I finally found a yard of the fabric in a quilt store in Kansas on the way to a family reunion. But, it has been in the back of my mind.
Last November, I bought cream fuzzy fabric and a chocolate brown fuzzy fabric for the quilt.
Finally, a few weeks ago in Colorado Springs, I found the last piece of fabric.
There was still the question of design. This question was answered Sunday night when I was looking at the fabric. Because it is mainly flannel, I didn't want to do too complicated of a design--flannel is thicker than regular quilting cotton and therefore, can be a bit more bulky at the seams. I settled on alternating a diamond pattern with a plain square of the last flannel that I purchased. I decided to start on the diamond squares.
Using my new handy-dandy Accuquilt GO fabric cutter, I cut out triangles of two different fabrics (placing right sides together on the cutter). After carefully pealing a pair of triangles from the mat, I sewed the triangles together, and repeated 4 times. After ironing the seams, I had the following:
By flipping the top squares over the lower squares (keeping the right sides together) and sewing along one side, I wound up with two halves of the final square:
Then, it was just putting the right sides together and sewing one more seam to get the first square:
Several more squares were soon to follow:
I now have 9 squares complete. But, as you can see by the second to the last photo, it is messy working with the brown fuzzy fabric...
