My first quilt is now complete !! It is small and suitable for infants and small toddlers. You can see that our dog, Calliope, is awestruck (or perhaps it hurts her eyes 😉 ). The quilt looks better than I expected since I see every single mistake that I made—all of which are common for beginner quilters.

I learned several important lessons:

precise, exact measuring and cutting accurately is crucial to the process—even being off an eighth of an inch can multiply to an inch in the right (or wrong) circumstances
some fabrics have directionality — I discovered that when I saw that some blocks of cats were sideways. I had to purchase some more fabric and re-cut the blocks.

My next “project” will be using scraps (amazing how many scraps are created) to create two blocks. I’ll do my best to measure and cut accurately and join the two blocks to see how well I’ve done. I’ll be practicing free-motion quilting too.