Originally Posted by JudyBsquared
I totally understand your pain at your hard work unappreciated. I've sort of decided to hone my quilting skills by giving everyone I know a potholder I've made. It's such a good, fast,easy way to use scraps and not invest a lot of money.
I'm working on my very first quilt, baby-size and boy have I learned a lot from all my booboos.
Could someone comment on the best quilt designs for beginners or baby quilts. I tried my first FMQ on a potholder and it will be a long time til I do that again.
Judy, there are probably some good threads on her about that subject. A couple of tried and true beginner patterns are just setting 5" blocks together, a rail fence pattern (very quick and simple, yet looks interesting) another is a four patch with solid/contrasing setting squares. If you look on downy.com's website, there are some patterns there for their charity quilts. The patterns are super simple.