Whirlygig Quilt - Finished!!

I saw the tutorial to this quilt awhile ago, and when I did, I loved how it made me, a non-quilter, think I could do it.  Seemed easy enough - so I gave it a go!  The only hard part was that I made it queen size - what was I thinking!  It's for my toddler's bed - hence the fun color scheme.

You can find the tutorial from Quilting on Turtle Hill HERE, which is for a charm pack.  There's modified instructions for larger squares HERE - that's the measurements I used.

It really didn't take that long - it's just sitting down and doing it.

I quilted it on a regular machine, trying my hand at stippling -- if you are a quilt expert , don't look close, but if you're a nonquilter like me, here's the picture to be amazed it - I still can't believe I did it!  And it wasn't hard - just swirling the fabric to make swirls.  I did it on all the brown.

After a whole row I realized I had brown thread in my bobbin - doh!  But I wasn't taking out what I'd already sewn, and I thought it'd be weird to switch part-way through, so it's brown thread on blue - oh well.

I miscalculated at first, so I had to add this big brown strip to all the sides - that part doesn't lay really well, but hey, it's my first big quilt, so I'm giving myself a break.  And kudos to all quilt bloggers - these things are hard to take pictures of- I've got 3 kids holding it up, with one on the side who wanted in on the fun:

I used a sheet for the back - -

 And yep, I think I'm hooked on quilting - although in smaller sizes next time......