Step 5 - Finishing & Stitches

Here's just some of the stitches used for joining the pieces together - plus a personal name tag!

 

Step 4 - Making "Edges & Joiners"

These are the squares now complete with their joining fabrics placed ready for stitching.

After joining the main central pieces, the next step was to edge the quilt on the long edges using small strips & then binding all outer edges. Below are the 2 edging strips at either side of the long edges joined to the central panel.

 

Step 3 - Making squares

One main consideration in making this quilt was to ensure it didn't become too heavy. Being cotton fabric, the smaller the pieces & more joins there are, the heavier it gets. Too large pieces, then the cover can begin to look "scrappy". Below is the first set of squares made & layed out on a double bed to see what they look like. (the underlying black is an existing duvet on the bed).

On second thoughts, I decided to turn the squares as the overall length would be too long when finished left at the angle originally planned.. They also looked better this way. Looking at the remaining "border fabrics" resulted in planning colours to enhance those already in each of the squares. However, with insufficient sized remnants & to maintain minimum cover weight, these had to be made more as strips. 

I moved these joining pieces several times to retain the overall colouring effect - mainly equal distribution of pinks & blues.

This is the final layout plan - now onto making these inserts & edgings.