Quarter Hour Quilting

Because of the inspiration from visiting the International Quilt Festival and a desire to try to preserve what sanity I still have, I thought I'd try to break a quilting project down into 15 minute increments. So I thought I'd detail my steps in hopes that it can help others. Too often people say quilting is too time consuming -- but if done in small steps, I think it can be accomplished without spending hours at a time. We'll see how this little experiment works!

Of course, I didn't decide until after I cut the fabric and just now thought of the journaling aspect, so I dont' have pictures of the early steps -- but here's what I've accomplished so far.

The pattern is called Top Hat Tessellations by Rebecca Boline. It's one of four twin size quilt patterns I received when I bought a fabric bundle at the quilt festival. There were 5 1-yard fabrics in the bundle.

Day 1: Cut the fabric into the initial strips called for in the pattern.
Day 2: I sewed the  larger strips together.
Day 3: I ironed the strips in preparation for cross-cutting.
Day 4: I cross cut the strips.
Day 5: I pinned the first set of strips to the left side of  one set of the cross cut pieces.
Day 6: I pinned the second set of strips to the left side of one set of the cross cut pieces.

Not a very exciting picture -- but this is what they look like now. I've got 72 of these to sew over the next few days to create two different blocks.