Tea cup pincushion

So after yesterdays post and of course now having my Accuquilt Go! Baby for one week, this morning I felt the need to complete a project.  I definitely don't want to have won this great fabric cutter in vain, and not put it to use. So I decided to make an itty bitty mini quilt for a pincushion (I got to start small. Plus I got 17 of these great vintage Anchor Hocking milk glass cups for $4.99, see here).

I'm utterly amazed how quilters make whole quilts using small squares.  It's definitely time consuming.  This project only took 25 2" squares and it seemed to take forever, but then again I was taking my time since I'm new to this thing called quilting.

I have to say I was quiet pleased on the outcome of the square, but a little disappointed that a lot of the work was covered up once I converted it to a pincushion.  I knew that most of the squares were gonna be tucked inside the cup, but I wanted to see more of the pattern, not only 9 out of the 25.  Humph...oh well.  

 

Note to self: Next time use a wide boarder for the edge of the quilt and only 9 squares in the center.  This will reduce the amount of work for the pincushion.

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1st quilt in the works (at a snails pace)

So as I've mentioned before I'm working on my first quilt from the I-spy squares I won from Obsessively Stitching.  The process is veeeerrrryyyy slow.  I think my biggest hang up is thinking of colors to pair up with the squares.  Most of the fabrics in my stash have patterns, and I guess in my mind solid colors should be the border.  I'm trying to keep an open mind by attempting some non-solid border fabrics.

This is gonna be a loooong project.  This is only nine squares out of 50 that my daughter has chosen out of the 88 received.  I'm pretty sure I'm gonna sneak some more of the squares in; depending on the final size of the quilt I decide upon.

Any quilters out there?  How long did it take you to make your first quilt?

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