In a happy coincidence a couple of months ago, I fell in love with a pattern called Simply Woven by SewCraftyJess posted on the Moda Bake Shop. The same day I snagged two jelly rolls of Chicopee by Denyse Schmidt on sale from Craftsy. That combined with some Eggshell Bella solid and I was all set to make a new quilt.
The DMQG retreat was a couple of weeks later at the Compass Centre in Mt. Calm, Texas, so I took everything with me and started on my version of Simply Woven. The first problem I encountered was that my jelly rolls did not have as many strips as the pattern called for. Luckily, there is a shop in the Compass Center that had some near-solids in coordinating colors so I bought enough to make up the difference. Once everything was cut, I started piecing. It's not a hard pattern but it takes FOREVER! I worked on it for two complete days and finally finished the top (I thought) on Sunday morning. I hadn't paid any attention to the size of the finished quilt, which was 72"x96", about twin sized. I don't have any twin beds, so when I got home, I took out one row, made one more block, and sewed it back together so it measures 84"x84". I like the square size much better, and it will fit over my queen sized bed.
I quilted it this weekend and used all the left-over strips for the binding. I'm really pleased with it!
Love your Chicopee version!! It looks so great :-)
ReplyDeleteI love how this turned out, Laurie! You SHOULD be pleased!
ReplyDeleteI love your Simply Woven quilt!!! Made a block from this in a bee recently, and now really want to make the whole quilt for myself!
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