Leaf Quilt: Aug - Dec

So WAAAAY back in January I bought (what I thought to be) all the fabric I needed to make this leaf applique quilt. And then I cut MOST of the pieces: 8x8 squares and 2x2 squares and wonky strips.

In August, I actually started to put the pieces together... 8x8s cut into 2 and wonky strips sewn in between. Then cutting out the 120 leaves... Here's a photo of me (and Zoey) cutting the wonky squares back into 6x6 squares.

Then came the LONG (everything in this quilt feels like a long time) task of sewing all the 2x2 squares into 4 square strips (with Jody).

Then I decided that it would be a GREAT idea to hand stitch all the edges of the leaves... did I mention that this quilt is taking a long time? So that took me into November, when I realized that I was 20 leaf squares short and had to do all the steps over again for 20 more! But they look super nice all hand stitched and stuff...

Into December, I needed a fabric for the lime squares and decided that the quilt needs to be 6" larger on all sides SO had to order fabric. After very careful measuring, I bought the wrong amount (too little), couldn't buy more of the same pattern, and ordered some online... only to find that I still didn't order enough. New order and 1 yard too much, I'm set to keep going!! I cut the little squares for the inside and long strips for the outside and started to sew rows.

Cats are bad for this. They like to run across all my carefully laid out/planned pieces before I pick them up so that I have to do it all over again... they did this no less than 5 times... I just can't bear to lock them out!!

Then I sewed all the pieces together to make strips.

And devised this nifty, high tech way to make sure I sew them in order...

Now I'm sewing all the rows together. I'm 10 rows in with 19 more to go... the ironing is SO time consuming, I wish someone else would do that and I could just sew :-)

Here's the 10 rows...