My 1st FINISHED quilt

A couple of summers ago I decided that I was going to make, and finish, a quilt.  I had made two quilt tops in high school and never finished one, so I was determined to see this one through.  I know I wanted it to be outdoorsy, and I had a shower curtain I bought at Cabelas that I wanted to use because it was made out of fabric.  So I went to the craft store and picked out some other fabrics.

I ended up getting a green material with paw prints on it, an orange tree bark material, and a light pine cone material.  Because they are all pretty busy, I decided to get plain black material to put in between each piece to break up the materials.  To the left is a picture of just one of the many blocks used to make up the large quilt.  

The pattern I used was like the Zig Zag Rail Fence.  I used the same pattern for one of my quilt tops I made in high school, so I already had some experience.  I did not use an actual pattern for this quilt.  My grandma and I crunched some numbers and I followed my own pattern.  The original pattern does not include the black pieces in between the other pieces so I wouldn't have been able to use that pattern anyways. 

Here is a few of the blocks put together

It took some thinking to get the quilt just right and to figure out which way every block had to go.  It was nice once the pattern started to come together.  

Before sewing the blocks together, I laid them out to make sure I got the placing right.  My grandma had some sort of contraption made that had a big piece of felt like material that held the blocks on nicely.

I finally had all the blocks done!! Now all I had left was adding the borders and the top was finished.

There is the finished product! (Not including after the backing was put on and the actual quilting was done)  My grandma had a friend who was really into quilting and had a top-of-the-line quilting machine.  She was nice enough to let me use it and quilt it myself.  The machine was very fun to use and hopefully one day I can buy one for myself :)

After it was quilted, my grandma hand stitched the binding for me and it turned out AWESOME!  It is my proudest creation to this day.  Now I am itching to make a new quilt!