The Lil' Fidget Quilt

 

I made a little fidget quilt.

People make fun of Pinterest. I use it for quilting research. I literally have thousands of pins in my quilting board. It's my go-to library. I had lots of information on fidget quilts saved and was eager to make one. It took a couple of weeks to get this whipped up...that's fast for me since I'm at work 40 hours a week. It was fun making this and as usual I learned a lot.

I love making quilts. It's easy sewing. All straight seams. Any other kind of sewing stresses me out! So for this quilt I had to stretch my sewing comfort zone. I learned to sew a pocket, velcro, and a zipper! Things I would have never tried had it not been for my great desire to quilt. I'm still not going to be a seamstress by any means but at least I can say I've sewn a zipper.

This quilt has 25 squares. I loosely followed a free fidget quilt pattern. It has buttons, ribbons, velcro, pockets, flaps, lace, loops, and a zipper. Most of the things I had on hand and only needed to purchase a few items.

Colorful buttons.

The pattern I used had these triangle flaps.

I decided to sew some buttons under a couple of them.

I love the hearts on this lace. I've had this spool of lace forever. It seems to be a never ending spool!

Velcro!

The pattern I followed had some lanyard for tying the rolled quilt closed. I didn't like that so I bought a buckle which I ended up not liking either! I finally decided on elastic which I already had on hand.

The quilt finished at approximately 21 1/2" x 21 1/2"

To my surprise it's quilt #40!