Irishlady

This is the first large quilt I am making for myself for our bed. I have made 1 other large quilt for my youngest son- knowing absolutely nothing about quilting and fumbling through the project. I have made 7 baby and toddler quilts over the last few months as I learn better techniques and as practice and decided I was ready to take on this project for myself. Finished size will be an oversized Queen-we wanted this to drape low on the sides. I've chosen different shades and patterns of fabric in blues, greens and browns. I chose the pattern from one of Jenny's tutorials because of the simplicity of it for a beginning quilter and the wonderful looks of the finished quilts I've seen done with it. The blocks are 10" finished size- I cut my yardage into batches of 7X11" and 4X11" pieces, sewed these together randomly- then cut in half to again sew random sections. I then trimmed all the blocks to 10" squares before sewing my rows. The bottoms sections are 5 rows of 5 squares- I did the same for the top sections and decided it needed extra length so added an addition row of 5 squares- so 6 rows of 5 squares. I chose to do a 1.5" border in chocolate brown, then a section large border with 5X7 rectangles set lengthwise. I have chosen to do this quilt in the QAYG fashion as I am using my domestic sewing machine that has a smaller neck area and a large quilt is too large to work through it with good results (learned that the hard way with the first big quilt). I have built the quilt top in 4 large sections that I will sandwich and quilt with the stitch in the ditch method before joining it together. I have all 4 section together and am working on the borders, hoping to get each section finished and set up into the quilt sandwiches by the end of Sunday evening. I plan to start quilting the top this coming week. Update: I now have the borders on all 4 sections and 1 section is now a quilt sandwich and ready for quilting.