Yea baby!

 I'm on fire! Not only is the back of the quilt assembled the whole thing is finished!!

Here's my Swarm.

I really like this quilt, the points where super annoying to line up but I think it looks really good.

I choose to do different white prints rather than just one print or solid fabric, in person it adds a nice detail without making the quilt too busy looking - something I'm definitely going to keep in mind for future quilts

Next was basting the whole thing togethers, not my favourite step. I don't have space in my room so I need to do it at the dining room table and I have to wait for my family to be out so they don't get in the way - which took a couple of days!

I used both spray and pins to baste it together which is lucky because I didn't have enough pins to secure it properly - they are being used in a different project.

I choose to do simple diagonal line quilting because its quick and I really didn't want to slow myself down by making it over complicated - not that I can do complicated quilting, I really don't have the patients for it.

Squaring it all up was really easy because it already had built in lines I could use as guides so I managed to square it up and sew on the binding all in one afternoon - like I said I am on FIRE!

Its currently 9pm and chucking it down raining so there's no chance I can get a decent picture, hopefully it stops raining and I can get one tomorrow.

The thing I love most about this quilt?..... it cost nothing. Everything I used I already had.

The HST where left over from another quilt (which is the next thing I want to finish), the back was a quilt top I had to finish putting together, I frankensteined the batting out of bits I had left over from other projects, the binding was fabric from my stash... I spend zero pounds on this whole thing. 

Edit: Finished!

Caroline's Quilt

 Progress is good!

I redrew my plans to accommodate it being a smaller quilt and it actually wasn't a pain to figure out

I've got all of my rows sewen together s next it sewing them together and then I will have a back!
I love it when a plan works!

Now I don't know if you have noticed, but it's not a christmasy quilt anymore. 
When I was asking people opinions on the Christmas Quilt That Went Wrong they pointed out that if it was too Christmasy maybe she wouldn't use it year round - This was pointed out because they where trying me make me feel better about it not screaming Christmas but it made me rethink the whole plan.

When I was making the HST quilt I did consider using Christmas fabric in place of the solid colour fabric, but I laid out a section and auditioned the fabric in place I decided that I preferred the colours rather than the Christmas ones

So now its just going to be given as a Christmas Gift instead of it being a Christmas Quilt

Take 2 Caroline's Quilt

 ...Trusty Half Square Triangles.

The best bit is I already had a bunch of White and Solid colour fabric cut into squares (from a different quilt that I haven't finished, don't judge)
Picking the size for a quilt is one of my down falls, I always pick a big size and then double think it half way through - another reason I didn't like the Christmas Tree quilt!
But the amount of fabric I had already cut made the decision on the size - it was like fate!
I didn't have quiet enough white fabric so I threw in some solid colour squares and that came together super quick 

In fact its done!!

Its 60 X 60 which is apparently throw size, I'm not sure if it would suit a boarder, my plan was to scavenge the boarder off of the Christmas Tree quilt and use it on on this one - I think it would make squaring it up a little easier but I'm not sold on the idea yet

Next is the backing and considering I already spent money on the Christmas Tree Quilt I really don't want to spend any more. My problem is I only really buy fat quarters or at the most half meters of fabric so I don't have enough of anything in my stash. I did consider using the Christmas Tree one as a backing but I realllyyyy don't like it but at some random hour of the night I remembered a WIP that might work

Who remembers me talking about Swarm....?

Swarm By Selina Cheng

This is the quilt instructions I came in search for but found none... just a drawing of the top. 

As you can see I left myself really detailed notes to make it easy on myself if/when I picked it up again

I had already pieced a bunch of this quilt but staying true to fashion I stopped before if was finished - which I guess is sort of lucky because it's now going to be the back of Carolines quilt

I "just" have to sew the rows together and it will be complete.
I'm taking out 4 rows because I had originally planned for it to be 75X85 which is too big for what I need. Lets see how long this one takes me and if I finish it

Caroline's Christmas Quilt

This one didn't go to plan at all. 

 My friend Caroline love Christmas but she's a had it hard for the last year or so and I thought I would show my love for her by making her a quilt.... a quick quilt because its already October and I don't have a lot of free time to sew. 

Enter this lovely quilt... 

Holiday Hills Quilt Pattern

I'm still poor so I drew something similar up myself and got to work using my stash of fabric (although I did have to buy the backing white colour) 

I got so far as squaring it up and then decided I hated it. 

I picked totally the wrong fabrics - I should have gone with green for the tree, or maybe more Christmas colours but I didn't because I'm stupid. Plus I added sashing and it adds nothing but empty space and it doesn't look great 

No way am I giving something that I think is rubbish so I went back to the drawing board for an even quicker quilt and landed on... 

So to no ones surprise....

 ...I'm still a rubbish blogger. I have no idea if blogging is still a thing!

I pulled out an old WIP to scavenge as a backing but I hadn't written any clues on where I was in the process or how to bloody thing was meant to go together so I came here in hopes of clarity but its been so long this quilt isn't even on here!

To my shame I haven't completed a quilt since Jos' and Nans' - I have started a few but as we know starting and finishing a quilt are 2 different hobbies.

Let me start with the one I'm currently working on and see if I can work backwards...