Last fall I joined Quilting Jet Girls Alison Glass Charm Swap. It was my first swap ever and I was a bit excited.
Of course, once I received the charms, then the dilemma was what do I do with them. I am not the creative, out side of the box thinker. I am still the newby who is working on points and seam matching.
So I took the opportunity to match this quilt up with Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal
In this post from January OMG I played with layouts of HSTs. These are my favorite. I told you I’m not that creative. So I go with what works and don’t venture to far.
So I decided on this HST layout. This was the first time I did them as diamonds and they turned out pretty cute.
Of course, then I had to decide how to quilt it on my home machine. Oh, how about straight lines ( this is the only way I have quilted) no stretch of the imagination here.
I think it turned out rather cute. Used my standard striped for the binding. I am getting a bit better with sewing my binding. I am doing it all my machine. Still room to improve, but am getting better and don’t stress about it as much.
I used a wide Moda backing. Labeled and washed it up the other day and am done. Way before the end of January.
Linking up with
Quilting Jet Girl – Alison Glass Swap
What a great little quilt! No wonder you are excited! Adorable setting and simple quilting are often the best! Love the stripe binding too!
I love the striped binding! Such a cute quilt!
This looks just wonderful! Congrats on your finish and thanks for linking up with Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal.
Very cute setting!
I love the way you used the charm squares- cutting them into HSTs and then laying them out as diamonds- it looks so complicated! Out of curiosity, what was the final size of your quilt?
It is 45.5 x 45.5
Love your quilt. Very good choice in binding!
This is very cute! The straight line quilting works perfectly, and I love your binding choice!!
I am so honored that you chose to participate in the Alison Glass Charm Swap for the first time and I really love how your quilt top came together. The diamond layout is great, and your straight line quilting is a perfect compliment. Thanks so much for linking up to the Alison Glass Challenge, too!
Creative or not it looks great to me. Well done on a lovely finish.
Great layout for your HST! Love the scrappy look!
Love it!!! Thanks for adding it to the link up so I could see it!
This is a very nice quilt. I like the diamond shape for the 1/2 square triangles.
This is cute!!
Such a lovely quilt, your quilting is just right. Congratulations on your finish.
Congratulations on achieving your January OMG. You made a nice quilt…I love the striped binding.
It did!! It is cute and it turned out just great!