Neptune Quilt I

I've made six quilts so far. The first one I made was for my parents and it nearly killed me. I didn't make another one for over a year. Likely because it was my first one so I was learning, made lots of mistakes and french knotted it rather than machine quilting.

The other five have been for my nephews or friends who were having babies. They were usually smaller so went a bit faster and now I feel like I've arrived. Yesterday I finished one off from piecing the back to completion in one afternoon - that's fast compared to when I started.

So where the hell is my quilt?!

This is a record, even for me. I've had this fabric for four years now. I needed one more coordinating fabric to make  a quilt big enough for us to snuggle under, so it was daunting. I finally went to the best local fabric shop around here and found the perfect fabric without even trying very hard.

See the fabric with the big hexes on the lower left? That's the one I found. It's the right colour (which was what I thought would be hardest to match) and it even has hexes that match the smaller ones in the two fabrics on the right.

I have a quarter of the front sewn, now I'll have to figure out what to do with the back - it's going to be a patchwork overload and all over the place because I have lots of smaller pieces and a few bigger pieces to work with. That's the nature of quilting right?! 

So lots of good movies and sewing is in my future for the next couple days. Tomorrow I think I'll have a Pride and Prejudice marathon. Today I might do a Columbo marathon combined with an 80's music playlist.