2wheelwoman

I'm so impressed with so many of these "first" quilts. Such ambitious projects too! Wow. This is a picture of my first humble quilt called "Simple Life.". It was a kit from Connecting Threads. The pictures were preprinted, and then I cut and added the frames and borders. Then, not really knowing anything else about quilting and how to go about it -- I machine sewed around almost every element in every picture. I used well over a dozen colors of thread on it. Wish I had a picture of the close-up "quilting" on this one, but it was a philanthropy quilt for my guild and was donated. My second quilt was one I called Gerta the Goose. I got brave enough to echo quilt this one. It was also donated. AND the Connecting Threads kit had so much extra fabric in it that the background in Gerta is leftover from backing Simple Life. Nowadays you just hope to get ENOUGH fabric, and I had a couple of yards left over.