Old 10-14-2008, 06:11 PM
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GailG
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I only wish that I had recorded all of the quilts that I've made. Now that probably sounds very impressive, but it's really not. Many of them were whole-cloth and tied. But my first -- I taught at an elementary school (first grade) and some of the staff member there were quilters. One of them suggested that we make friendship quilts -- each of us would make a block for each of the participants. We would share our blocks and put them into a quilt for ourselves. When I look at the block that I made I am so embarrassed. It is well made, but at the time I didn't even know that blocks had names, etc. I put together this 9-patch that kinda looked like a churndash, but it really wasn't. :? Anyway, I made my quilt and hand-quilted it. I've tried my hand at a lot of different techniques, but really enjoy strip piecing and putting together traditional blocks. I'll never be able to get all the quilts in "my head" done in this lifetime.
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