Rettie V. Grama

Now, please don't laugh! My first quilt was made from doubleknit in 1975. My # 2 daughter was engaged to be married. Without my knowing it, over the years of my sewing my children's clothing out of doubleknit, she had gathered all the left over scraps. Shortly after she became engaged she brought this bag of scraps to me and asked me to make a quilt for her. Really didn't know what I was getting into with doubleknit.
They were mostly solids with a few prints mixed in. Used an old fashioned 9 patch pattern, made the center of a print and surrounded it with various color squares. When it came to sashing, didn't have anything left big enough to use. Went to the store, bought yardage of black doubleknit, finished and tied the quilt. It was beautiful