Metro Lattice

Last summer I began a summer quilt for my bedroom.  If any of you are like me summertime is not a time with free uninterrupted quilting time.  My summer is filled with running here and there with my 4 darling daughters.  By August the quilt was put in a drawer and forgotten, until Thursday, yes this last Thursday, March 10th.  

While attending a quilt camp, I went to a road show given by Jenny Pedigo.  I really fell in love with two of her quilts, metro lattice and urban nine patch. 

Here she is with her metro lattice quilt:

Here is a urban nine patch I saw at the HMQS last year

I chose the Moda fabric, Color Therapy, that tells you I have had the fabric for at least a year!  And I did put all the HST's together, but then the quilt got put away. Thursday was an open "sew"cial at the cotton shop and so I decided that with 5 hours of sewing I could start this again.  

I did get 90 pinwheels put together!

I made me a list of everything I have to do and am checking it off step by step.

☑️ Make HST (360)

☑️ Make pinwheels (90)

🔘 trim pinwheels to 10"

🔘 use QCR to cut pinwheels 

🔘 Sew edging on pinwheels 

🔘 trim pinwheels to 9 1/2"

🔘 create rectangles (322)

🔘 trim rectangles to 2" x 9 1/2"

🔘 create rectangle sets (161)

🔘 Layout quilt

🔘 Stitch together top 

🔘iron

🔘 Baste

🔘Quilt

🔘 Bind

It's a lot of steps, here is what one block looks like after adding pieces cut with the QCR (quick cut ruler) and trimming it to 9 1/2". Maybe I will have it ready for next summer!