You know how it goes, you see a project that looks appealing and buy the kit and then realize you have probably bitten off more than you could chew for your first big quilting project and so you have to take a step back to something smaller/easier!

This is the free Patchwork Squares pattern from Lo and Behold Stitchery, I decided to make the throw sized quilt, and tried to make it a little easy on myself (with regard to colour choices) and bought a destash bundle from their shop of 10 1/2 yard pieces of fabric.

For the pattern you need 224 5″ squares, so I planned out the arrangement of squares and calculated the number I needed of each using a spreadsheet:

The colours are:

• Navy = Unknown
• Teal = Unknown
• Light teal = AGF Fresh Water
• Stripes = AGF The Season of Tribute : Roots of Nature
• White = Unknown
• Pale pink = AGF Ever So Pink
• Pink = Unknown
• Flowers = AGF Lovestruck
• Red = Unknown
• Wine = Unknown

I chain pieced the rows together, then joined all the rows to make the full quilt top…. Even with chain piecing it took a long time, I was really trying to get all my seams to match up perfectly, and also decided to press all the seams open.

(All those baskets off to the left are me trying to organize all my projects….. I got a bit carried away in the sales!)

I quilted it using Quilter’s Dream Select Cotton batting, and some wide flannel fabric from Joann (RIP) I seemed to have loads of for some reason, by stitching vertical and horizontal lines either side of the seams between squares.

I machine bound it using strips of an old sheet, and applied a tag courtesy of my new embroidery module toy and a cute hand motif from urbanthreads.com

I don’t love the stitching on the letters, I am still playing with it a little, maybe I need a different font. Also, I switched out the standard bobbin holder for the yellow high tension bobbin holder between the letters and the motif and found that that made a lot of difference!

Overall it is cozy! The flannel backing make it snuggly, and because I basted it together using pins before quilting instead of spray basting like I have done in the past, it is less stiff from the start. The less dense quilting style also helps.

Onwards to the next project!