Making a quilt top!

Mother and I have starting putting together a new quilt top. I am loving every minute of it!! We are making it for Jeffrey and Jason to use on their new queen sized bed. The pattern we are using is Crossroads to Jericho. (See picture at end of post.) In a Crossroads to Jericho pattern there are 9-patches turned diagonally with triangles on each of the sides. To make this quilt you use a strip piecing method. You cut the strips with a yardstick and rotory cutter. That makes it faster than drawing out all of the pieces and cutting them out with scissors. The strip piecing method is also faster because you sew the pieces a couple of times compared to trillions!

We have been going pretty fast since we started it a week and a half ago. I think we have more time because of not having school, and because Tim and Brenda's wedding is over and all the rush with that.

As some of you may know, Mother and I have already made one quilt together (Mother did the pinning and cutting, and I did the sewing).
A picture of that quilt on my bed.


Mother has also made 3 other quilts by herself through the years.

Sometime this year (probably in June) the Lord provided for me by giving me a sewing machine for free from my great aunt Hazel, who was moving to an assisted living type of place and couldn't keep her sewing machine. I am very thankful for it and I love using it already! Mother did a cleaning, oiling, and ajustment on it (she plans to teach me how next time).

Mother and I cutting out the strips and triangles for this quilt top.

Our hands.

This is when we had the strips (3 pieces each) sewn together and several of them together on a table.

A view from the other way.

After sewing all of the fabrics into strips we cut them into 2 1/2 in. pieces.
The piles of cut strips.

Next we arranged the strips into 9 patches.
Lots of nine patches waiting to be sewn.

Mother pinning the 9 patch pieces together for me to sew. She's holding a pin in her mouth.

The pinned pieces just as they are before I sew them.

Me sewing on my new (it's old, but new to me) sewing machine.

When I am sewing the 9 patches I do them all in a string, so as not to waste thread cutting it in-between them.
This is something like they will look like when they are done.


We got this quilt pattern from the book "Scrap Quilts - fast and fun" compiled and edited by Patricia Wilens.
This is the page of the book that we got the quilt from.

P.S. This quilt is made almost entirely with scraps, so it is cheaper to make than other quilts.