Well, not exactly a fail, but not my normal success with quilting. This was my first large quilt, so I shouldn't be to surprised.
I decided to make Patrick a quilt for his big boy room. I couldn't find one that I liked, they were either too babyish or too "big boyish". I wanted something that would work now but also grow with him. He loved trucks, cars, airplanes, trains, . . . really anything that moves; so I found some fabric that had all kinds of transportation on it. Until this point I could only find just cars, or just trains, or just construction. I spent more than I wanted to on the fabric.
I did some quick drawings of what I wanted and then started to piece together the quilt. It has 12 squares with a vehicle of some kind in each. The piecing of the squares was the easy part as well as adding the border. This is were I started to run into problems.
My machine is to small the quilt the twin sized quilt I made. I gave it a try but it was bunching and wrinkling. It looked terrible. So I spent the next two evenings with a seam riper taking out what I did. I looked into renting one of those large quilting machines but couldn't justify $120 to get certified and then $20-30 a hour to rent it. I ended up using some colorful buttons to do the "tie comforter" look instead. Not by favorite but it works.
Once finished I washed the whole thing, like I always do. BIG MISTAKE! The quilting fabric pulled and bunched in the wash. It also pulled the quilt squares and made some of the seams come undone. I had to do some quick repairs in the small areas. Unfortunately, the airplane (the first square I did) was pretty much ruined. I had to completely redo it. I didn't have the same blue anymore and didn't want to spend more money (I already spent way more than I should have) to buy the same color fabric again. I had a lighter blue that I used, so the airplane looks a little funny. Light blue next to the airplane and then darker blue all round that.
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