Continued Adventures in Quilting: Coasters

I am slowly working my way up the quilting totem pole. I am getting a good feel for piecing blocks together, and now I have entered batting territory. Exciting times! My first fully quilted project was a set of coasters. I made them for my mom for Mother’s Day, and now that she’s gotten them in the mail, I can show them to you.

They are totally imperfect, mostly because I can’t be bothered with excessive measuring and am still mastering the art of sewing in a straight line, but if you can’t send imperfect coasters to your mom, who can you send them to? She’s the one who taught me that imperfections only add character!

I learned a lot from this process, and I think my coasters got progressively better. This was the first one. Sewing troubles! But I also learned a lot about the layout of my stitches.

This was the second one, in which I experimented with freeform quilting and learned a valuable edging lesson.

On the third one, I went back to angular stitches and played with some of the decorative stitches my machine will do. Fun! This one might be my favorite.

And I went back to freeform circles on my last one. I made one of these a night, and I showed Eric each one after I finished it. He loved them all, but that’s probably because he is the sweetest.

This was a really fun and totally approachable project for a beginning quilter. Now we move boldly forward to…a laptop case! I’m really excited for that one. And, a small programming note: Thank you all so much for your sweet comments over the past few days! I am woefully behind on responding to your wonderful kindness, but I am plotting a catch-up session and super looking forward to it.