I started making these quilts in 2011 right after I made Nathan’s baby quilt which was my first quilt. (I am not a quilter, so I decided I should start out with something small.) Ok, ok, it only took me four years to finish these, but I didn’t work on them continuously.
I started with sewing scraps of fabric together just to get a quilting mojo thing going. Â Then I started buying old clothes at thrift stores and taking them apart for the fabric. Â Some friends gave me fabric. Â Someone across the street threw out boxes and boxes of great fabric! Â I bought fabric sample books
on eBay and a box of scraps from a quilt maker on  Etsy.
Gradually, I settled on  Log Cabin Pattern.  Since the idea of making the blocks all the same made me want to stick a needle in my eye, I decided to make them all different and had fun with each one.  The only rule was that the colors had to work.  Oh,  and I settled on a size of 12 inches square for each finished block.  I taught myself to chain piece and I became a quilt block berserker for a while.
The quilts are 6 blocks across and eight blocks long
 Years  ago, I painted a headboard  on my wall.  Makes it hard to rearrange the furniture!
My husband said he quit drinking in case he woke up one day and looked at his night stand. Â This is from my painted furniture phase.
I made my own binding, machine sewed it to the front of the quilts and hand sewed it to the back.  Here’s a good quilt binding tutorial.
I used fleece blankets as the filling and flannel sheets on the back.  I machine quilted by stitching in the ditch around the  blocks.  It wasn’t that difficult with a walking foot.
The view through the mirror on the wall. Â This is the companion piece to the nightstand.
I don’t have plans to make another quilt although I do have a third quilt top left over. Â It could happen!