My Personal Progress Quilt ~

I decided that my project for the Divine Nature value was going be a lap quilt. A type I hadn't made before. So I bought a jelly roll and cut it into strips. I then sewed 5 strips in each block .......

And then I laid the blocks out with the strips going in different directions till I achieved the design I wanted.

I sewed all my blocks together and then put an edge around the entire quilt . Then I went to the store and purchased material for the back and the binding ....... (without bringing the quilt ....dumb!)

I bought a poka dot material that I thought had the colors of the strips in it. ........ not really!

It didn't look all that good but I decided it was going to have to work. After all, I'd already bought the material!!

I then laid out the top, center and back and pinned it together really well and started machine quilting.

Once I was done quilting, I cut the sides to even out my quilt.

I then sewed on the homemade binding and sat up till 12:30 last night hand sewing the binding on the back side of the quilt!

Whala !! All done. I like it BUT ...............

The back is pretty wild and doesn't really go with the front ......UNLESS ....

I name it my waves and bubbles quilt!! lol

UPDATE: I donated this quilt to my daughter's auction to raise money to donate to the Humanitarian Service for the Japanese Earthquake/Tusami diaster. It went for $70 dollars so I was pretty pleased!

She raised $345 dollars total! I was pretty proud of her!! Anyway, I felt like I made my quilt for a good cause (ie: to earn a value in my personal progress) and then to be able to donate it for such a good cause was an extra bonus! WIN, WIN !!