quilting for beginners?

if you remember, quite a while a go i posted a to-do list of crafts i wanted to work on. one of those crafts, was a quilt like this:

and, ladies and gentlemen, i have begun working on my quilt! it's a pretty simple design, which is good since i've never made a quilt before and this helpful tutorial is making it even easier!

i started by cutting my fabrics {which austin helped me pick out} in to 3, 6 and 9 inch strips.

the inspiration quilt used black, green and ivory colored fabrics, but i decided to go with browns. it'll match our house better, i think.

after making all of the strips of the fabrics, i sewed them together end to end to get 90" wide strips, so the quilt will be about queen size. once the strips were to their mate, i sewed them all together in a layout i liked to get this beautiful piece of work.

you can see the seam running right down the middle of the quilt top. in order to make this a little less awkward, i put two "fake seams" {as i've been calling them} halfway between the center seam and each edge of the quilt top. and although i don't have a picture of that, you can just imagine four evenly spaced vertical sections, instead of just the big two vertical sections on this picture. does that make sense? meh. i don't know.

this is one of the fabrics that austin picked out. it was his favorite for some reason so i made sure there was a big 9" stripe of it.

and for some reason, austin {and the lady cutting the fabric for us at hobby lobby} thought this fabric was ridiculous and ugly. so it only gets one tiny little 3" section.

i don't know why everyone hates it so much! i mean, i think it looks a little like cauliflower or lettuce or something, but i still think it's pretty. oh well, less is more i suppose.

so that's my quilt top. i got some batting on sale at jo-ann's so now all i have to do is find the backing fabric that i want {on sale or clearance somewhere, this quilting stuff is expensive!} so i can sandwich the layers and get to quilting! i guess whenever that happens i'll be sure to share some pictures with you!