More Squares!

The quilt-a-long is in full swing and I've been making tons of squares.  I had made twelve before we even started because I was excited. :)  Then last weekend Mark and I went to Joanns and they have their fabric quarters on sale for $1.29.  So now the quilt is going to be a super crazy quilt of randomness. 

Here are the other squares I've made so far.  Notice they were made by a beginner (read: croooooked). 

I will spare you the photo of my first rotary cutter injury.  You're welcome.

Quilt-A-Long; My first three blocks

I'm a little nervous about starting the quilt-a-long tomorrow.  I've been really anxious too - so I started working on putting together a block.  Of course, my sewing machine was NOT cooperating and I almost chucked it out the window.  But, we've had a little discussion (ie: I've re-read the manual) and we're on good terms again.  Here are my first three blocks:

 

And the close ups:

I think this is my favorite one

Only 160-something to go.  ::head hits keyboard::

Quilt-Along Prep

I'm so excited about doing this quilt-along.  I have always wanted to make a quilt out of smaller pieces of fabric.  I've made several quilts, but they were usually large squares or even larger pieces of fabric.  Being that I do not sew very often (or very well for that matter - but that's a whole other story) I didn't have scrap fabric that I could use for this project.  That makes it more expensive; but it also gives me a lot of opportunity to find something I really like.

I went and picked out fabric over the weekend.  Here is what I have so far.

I'm not sure how I'm going to put them together at this point.  I got the fabrics to go in pairs (as seen) but I'm thinking I may make all the blocks different by mixing and matching.  not to mention the fact that I will probably need to buy about 10 more quarters of fabric.  I need about 1,290 - 2.5" squares.  I think I've done about 70.  ha!

Here is my first vision of what the squares will look like

I'm thinking that I will probably swap out the center squares for another pattern or another "solid" (I use quotes because all of my more solid fabrics are actually patterns of a complimentary color on color).  I think that might bring all the mismatched squares together.  I'm all for the crazy quilt look; but I also like symmetry - so I'm really trying to embrace both of those things. 

I have a ton more cutting to do though; so I better get to it!