I bought the Gone Fishing panel from Benartex to use as the main blocks, and then cut some smaller squares from orange and grey fabric to finish the design. The back is done with the grey, and I also made my own bias binding from the grey fabric too.
I used a couple of tutorials to help me through this, here they are:
Piecing basics
Quilting basics
Making bias binding
Attaching bias binding with a machine
Things I've learned through this process:
1. Matching up corners of blocks is really hard! I understand why so many quilts have border strips in them now. For my sister's quilt I might think about staggering the blocks to reduce the amount of corners I need to match.
2. Quilting is quite hard too! I only did "stitch in the ditch" and it still took concentration and time!
3. Adding binding is also tough because of the layers!
4. Despite 1, 2 and 3, it's totally worth it, and addictive! I'm having to be really strict with myself about buying all the fabric for a new quilt, not to mention a new sewing machine! Ha! I'll have to console myself with some other sewing instead.
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