Originally Posted by purrfectquilts
Just thinking back to my first quilt made me laugh today! I cut squares from a white sheet, used iron on embroidery transfers, painted them all with embroidery paint (remeber those tubes?), sashed with pink, backed with pink and yellow striped flannel. And, for the middle I put both an old blanket and an old tablecloth. No idea why. But, do you know how heavy that quilt was??!! My daughter has it today, well-loved, total tatters, but it is what it is. Over 50 years ago and a double bed size.
You all may laugh about those tube paints, but a dear aunt of mine used them to make a set of day-of-the-week dish towels for me in 1966, and I still have some of them, and the colors are still pretty good. These were used a
lot before before we got a dishwasher!