Day 3: Making a Quilt Top

I had just enough time to start laying out the quilt top this evening. Unfortuantly, I don't have enough room to lay the whole thing out at once :(

Day 3: Cutting

I finished cutting the purple blocks and borders today. After cutting all the required pieces from the purple fabric... I had some left over!!! I am so happy that I bought that bit extra (or just miscalculated what I needed initially :D)
I then marked all the 5.5" x 5.5" purple blocks with a diagonal line for positioning on the 6.5" x 6.5" white blocks to create the siggy blocks (see Day 3: Piecing).

I was also able to get the yellow fabric ironed and cut to the needed sizes. This is exciting, I had this planned for tomorrow. However, because I skipped my Mom's Night Out to help ready the basement for my in-laws visit this weekend, my husband allowed me some quilting time before the baby went to bed.

Quilt Timeline

I want to have this quilt ready for hand sticking of the binding (which is the last step) no later than July 30. That is exactly 9 days away. So here is the plan...

Wed, July 21
1. Finish cutting all purple fabric.
2. Assemble siggy blocks and iron them.

Thurs, July 22
1. Iron and cut yellow fabric squares and border.
2. Lay out all blocks on design wall.

Fri, July 23
1. Begin assembling blocks to form quilt top.

Sat, July 24 and Sun, July 25
1. Finishing assembling blocks to form quilt top.

Mon, July 26
1. Add borders to quilt blocks thereby completing the quilt top.
2. Cut and assemble backing.
3. Design quilt label and attach to backing.

Tues, July 27
1. Sandwich quilt top, batting and backing.
2. Baste quilt sandwich.

Wed, July 28
1. Machine quilt the quilt.

Thur, July 29
1. Cut and attach binding.

Fri, July 30
1. Fold over binding using binder clips.
2. Collect quilting notions to take with us to AirVenture 2010 where I intend to hand stick the binding onto the backing.

Sat, July 31 and Sun, Aug 1
1. Hand stick binding.

Mon, Aug 2
1. Wash completed quilt.

Tues, Aug 3
1. MAIL QUILT!