This week I marked and basted my Bungle Jungle charm pack quilt. I will start quilting it next week. You can read about last week’s progress here.
When I finished marking the top, I couldn’t decide on the backing. Then it hit me – why not use a Bungle Jungle layer cake and make back art for my modern quilt?
(The back is probably even more modern than the front since I threw the blocks together totally randomly!)
Each layer cake square is precut to 10 inches, so when you sew them together into 7 rows of 6 blocks each, the finished size is 57″ x 66.5″. My quilt top measures approximately 52″ x 60″ so that was perfect! It took me less than 2 hours to stitch all the backing squares together, including pinning and pressing the seams open.
Using a stencil, I drew little hands in the white spaces randomly over the surface of the quilt. This is going to be cute!
I marked all the hands before basting, using an inexpensive water soluble blue pen. I’m going to join the hands with loopy quilting so I can quilt them continuously.
I still haven’t decided what I’m going to quilt in the charm squares, so I left those unmarked for now. Any ideas??
Finally, I basted the quilt using about 150 Pinmoors. This is the 3rd quilt I’ve basted using Pinmoors and I’ve decided they are awesome! It’s a little spendy to buy enough of them for a big quilt, but they are totally worth it. It made basting a breeze and they are super easy to take out when quilting. I don’t even worry about pinning over my marked lines. The rule of thumb is to baste about a hand-width apart. That was easy for this quilt!
I’ve been following quilting blogs like The Free-Motion Quilting Project, WIP Wednesdays, Moda’s Bakeshop and the 2012 Free Motion Quilting Challenge for quite some time. I have so thoroughly enjoyed these projects that I have now been inspired to start my own sew along called Do-It-Yourself-Quilts!
I want to share step-by-step tutorials on how easy and fun it is to make your own quilts completely, including piecing and quilting. Then you can truly say you made it yourself!
Be sure to follow my blog for the official announcement about that on Thursday, July 19th, along with a sneak peak of my first project and a supply list if you’d like to join in!
This is such a cool quilt! I am excited to see the quilting, those hands are too neat! I love how you did the back of the quilt too! Thanks for linking up to WIP Wednesday!
I’m excited to see the quilting on this! Nice job.
I too love Pinmoors!…to keep the costs down I have found I can cut them in half with a box cutter then pin them through the “coin” edge (think lollipop)…works great.
Great idea Esther!
Love it!
Great idea! I love it!
Oh wow this is going to be a fun quilt! OK, for your charm squares, quilt Leah Day’s design called Lollipop chain. It will look like those cute little hands are reaching for lollipops! I love the pic of you in quilting action!