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Yay! I finally completed the Minecraft Creeper quilt for my son who turned 13 years old recently. I wanted something quick and easy to sew up so I made the Creeper quilt with large 7″ squares. To make the quilt more rectangle in shape, I added 10″ dark grey border to the top and bottom of the quilt. LOL I think I made it too big as it’s a little big for his single sized bed! Plenty for him to wrap himself in, right :). Below are some pics of the last stages of making this Creeper quilt. Not sure why but the black fabric attracted all the fluff from the batting!! Creeper quilt have since been washed, fluff brushed off and gifted to my son. My son loves the quilt and started using it straight away :). Quilt Details: Finished size is 70″ x 90″ Pieced and quilted by me Binding was done by sewing machine (binding sewn to back first then front of quilt) Linking up with Sew Cute at Blossom Heart Quilts (6th Jan 2015) and TGIFF at Quilt Matters (9th Jan 2015)....
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In January I decided to make a Minecraft quilt for my son’s 12th birthday. Fast forward 11 crazy busy months later, I am finally getting around to making it. Luckily my son understood why I couldn’t make it for him earlier this year. I hope to get it done for his 13th birthday in January! Last week I spent a couple of mornings cutting up the 100 squares of fabric for Creeper’s face :). Then I had some fun trying to duplicate the layout I previously planned here. I couldn’t get it quite the same but it was good enough for me to start sewing. Today I spent the day sewing up all 100 squares. Being a newbie, I’ve always had trouble lining up all my joins. A friend suggested I use a walking foot to sew up the rows for this quilt. So glad I listened as my joins are roughly lined up! They are not perfect but it is the best I have ever done! LOL I was congratulating myself on lining up the joins when I realised I accidentally sewed 2 same coloured squares next to each other! Luckily my son doesn’t mind so I kept on going :). Next I am going to add a grey border at the top and bottom of the quilt to make it more rectangular in shape. I am also going to add a thin grey border down the sides to keep Creeper more square in the centre/middle of the quilt. Hope that makes sense! Linking up with Stitch by Stitch’s Anything Goes Mondays (1st December), Blossom Heart Quilts’ Sew Cute Tuesday (2nd December) and Freshly Pieced’s WIP Wednesday (3rd December)....
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Happy New Year! My first born baby will be turning 12 years old in a few days and he has asked for a Minecraft quilt. I have put everything on hold and hope to get it done in time! I could not find any pattern online so I googled for a picture of Creeper that was made up of 100 pixels/squares. From the picture, twenty of the squares were black for the eyes and mouth. That left 80 squares for the shades of green. Luckily Spotlight had a sale on and also had 8 different shades of green available i.e. 10 squares of each shade of green. I took pics of each of the fabric and moved them around until I was happy with their placement. Here’s my Minecraft quilt layout plan. Spotlight only had charcoal fabric which I do not think is black enough. What do you think? I might have to buy another black fabric and compare. I plan to add a thick sashing in dark grey fabric across the top and bottom to make it longer. My son has asked for Minecraft to be spelt out. Not sure yet whether I would spell “Mine” at the top and “craft” at the bottom or just “Minecraft” at the top or “Minecraft” at the bottom. Now to cut out the squares :)....
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