embracing imperfection: jelly roll quilt along

This week brought a little bit of spare time (finally!) for ketchup-quilting. The first project I worked on was a quilt that a couple of friends and I made to give to a good friend who is getting married. We threw her a shower this week and decided that it would be fun to give her a cute snuggle blanket as a shower gift. It actually worked out really well to do it together. We got together to cut it out and make the blocks, then one friend took it home to finish putting it together, the other friend quilted it, and I ~~watched a whole lot of Larkrise to Candleford~~ sewed the binding on. I think I'm going to suggest that we do it again for someone that lives at my house who really needs a cute quilt and can't seem to get one all the way finished... I wonder if they'd go for it...

We used a package of charm squares to make the blocks, the kit was "reunion" from Moda. The blues and greens and reds together made it so bright and fun. All it is is a simple nine patch block cut down the middle both directions and then those four pieces turned and re-connected. I should have done a demo but I didn't. But I will if anybody cares!

Check out that awesome binding job!!

In other (just as important) news, I would like to say that I am now officially caught up on our family jelly roll quilt along. In January, my mom and sisters and sister in law and even some cousins on the other side of the world (Hi Guys!) and I started this fun quilt along from moose on the porch. Well actually, because life has been what it has for me for the last few months, as of yesterday I hadn't even started January yet. But I would like to announce that as of today, I am completely caught up, and even almost ready to sneak ahead and do #6, which is supposed to be for June. It looks super fun and I've already picked out the strips I'm using for it...It's on my cutting mat ready to go. (Shhhh! Don't tell!) Each month we are supposed to do a block, and initially no one was allowed to move on until everyone had it done. That was about hilarious, they all got so tired of waiting for me and my empty promises that they finally just moved on without me. I know, rude, huh.

I'm using a jelly roll from my stash called "freebird" from Moda. It is absolutely darling.
Here's my evidence:

January

February (My favorite)

Did anybody else notice that I put it together wrong? Where's Angie when I need her? My un-professional quilter eye didn't notice until I saw the photo on here. I try to avoid my friend, Mr. Un-Picker The Stitcher at all costs, but he sure is there for me whenever I need him. Now we're all good. And it still is my favorite block.