My First Year of Quilting - Part 4

My 4th ever completed quilt top is "Scrap Crystals" by Bonnie Hunter from her book "More Adventures With Leaders and Enders".  I learned A LOT from this quilt. I learned what accuracy really means when piecing everything together so as not to chop of your points.  I learned that I can make a beautiful quilt if I just do one step and a time and follow instructions carefully.  However most of all I learned that not all pattern writers are equal (more about that later) and Bonnie writes awesome instructions that even a newbie can follow and feel amazed at what was created.

Someday I will figure out how to move pics where I want them. Anywhooo.... Here is where I learned that if you, like me laid out your strips wrong so you had a right side to a wrong side you can just sew them together right sides together and clip a dog ear from both sides.  Love the easy angle ruler by the way. So I made a ton of these half square triangles. and this was one of the pretty ones.  There were many that were kind of wonky.  However I just kept putting pieces together....

 

And put more and more and more and more together....

 

And made the sashing with my first ever stich and flip corners...

 

I think I did pretty good... and put everything together in a webbed top.

 

 And sewed that together....

Added my border and rushed out the door to make my appointment with the long armer that is also going to quilt my dragon top. And spaced taking pictures.  So what did this quilt teach me?

1. That scant quarter inch seam is of the utmost importance. But it doesn't mean much if you didn't cut accurately in the first place.

2. Even if the piece is not "perfect" you can sew it in anyway and it will still look awesome!

3.Bonnie Patterns are super easy to follow even for a beginner.  

4. The more you keep piecing on and don't give up if it gets hard or things are perfect the more you will learn. And when you are done you will be that much better of a quilter because every piece you sew teaches you something new.