Manly Quilt - Kaleidoscope Plaid finish #005

For my third quilt, it was my husband's turn.  He really wanted a manly quilt made with plaids.  I found a kaleidoscope quilt that someone made with plaid that we both liked.  So I went in that directions.  I bought I Kaleidoscope rule to cut out all the pieces.  My husband is tall, so he wanted a really large quilt to cover him from head to toe.  I chose to make a 9 inch block and make the quilt nine rows of 6.  That would make it 81in X 54 in.  Then I could add a border if it wasn't quite big enough. 

I needed 108 pieces of each of the 6 fabrics

The only plaid fabric I found was a cheap, homespun fabric.  I highly recommend that you don't use homespun fabric if you are new.  Every time I took my seam ripper to it, the fabric would become unwoven.

This was a large undertaking.  My first few blocks looked kinda rough (the points of the triangles disappeared).  During this time I discovered by local quilt shop.  When talking to here, I learned that there is a quarter inch foot that will help me with my seam allowances.  Once I started using the quarter inch foot (and lots of starch on the pieces). My blocks started coming out much better.  This was my first decent block (I think it was the 8 of 54 one I did).  Not quite perfect, but I was happy with it.

54 blocks later.....

Once I finally got the blocks made and pieces, I decided to add a 3 inch border. 

I used my walking foot to quilt the quilt.  Check out final photos Here

I had no issue fitting this quilt into my new Singer 8500Q