My First <3
 

Good Morning everyone!

This past weekend I was sorting through my stash and found that I had enough to make a baby sized quilt by Jaybird Patterns called "Chopsticks"

This was my first "real" size quilt top I've done! And it didn't turn out too badly! You can see that I definitely need help matching my points up, but the pattern was pretty easy to follow and the ruler that this pattern needs made cutting a breeze. I enjoyed working on this from start to finish! Well, almost finished LOL I have to sandwich and bind and quilt.

This was a total confidence booster for me. I'm still not great at perfect lines, making fancy stitches from my machine, and even sewing straight :p But I got through it, and with minimal "reverse sewing" (using the seam ripper) and only one change of fabric due to me losing a fight with my rotary cutter. I'm a total klutz.

So, here it is. Any tips, critiques, and advice appreciated but be gentle...I'm not experienced at this at all :thumbup: I do see where I could have laid out the blocks differently to spread the colors around, and the trimming along the sides to create the half triangles could have been much more exact too.

Have a great day everyone! Soon I will be on to my next pattern, and maybe larger than baby sized :o

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Your baby quilt is very pretty and it looks to me like you did a good job!

I think this is perfect as it is x

First quilt?? Wow ! ! You did great. I stay away from patterns like that and I've been quilting for over 10 years.

Jaybirds patterns are mostly for an intermediate quilter so be glad you got thru it. I try to stay away from patterns with bias edges. No matter how much starch you use, they are not friendly to quilters. You should feel confidence in your quilting skills by getting this quilt done. It came out great.

Nice job. I think the color placement is fine. For future quilts take a pic with your phone and study the placement there

Great job! Nice colors too.

Congratulations! You should be excited for a first quilt top done!

very nice job!!!