Stay out of the sitting room

This quilt has taken over my life (and my home). It’s not the most practical of hobbies when you have a full-time job, a two year-old and a two-bedroom flat.

Oh, and can you see an ugly, small children’s armchair in the background that’s in desperate need of being re-upholstered? That’s a future project.

Better finish this quilt first, though.

All patchwork blocks completed!

This is what you need for a UK king-sized Jacob’s Ladder quilt: 121 8″ square blocks of 12 patches for the main quilt; 44 half blocks for the border; 4 4″ square patches for the corners.

A few days later – oh dear, I wish someone who knows what they are doing had looked at this photo. I now realise that I shouldn’t have sewn all of my half blocks for the border together as some of them need to face the opposite way to fit into the border correctly.