They may not have been the first I made, but they came close. I made log cabin baby quilts for my first two grandchildren. Their mother and I were looking at them last week, 30 years later, and the polyester/cotton blend fabrics are as bright as they were the day I finished them. They've been through a lot of hot water and hot dryers in that thirty years. Why on earth do blends have such a bad reputation among quilters? I still use them, mix them with 100 percent cottons, and love them. froggyintexas
Originally Posted by
HomespunHearth
What quilt block is the first that you ever made?
Mine was a 9-patch variation in a baby quilt - I think it was called Kings Road - and I actually made it for my grandmother as lap quilt for when she was in her wheel chair. Sadly, the quilt was stolen when she passed away (she was living in an assisted living center and somebody just helped themselves...).
The funny thing is that looking back, I KNOW it wasn't all cotton! At the time (1989 and self-taught) I had no idea what I was doing, so I went to the local House of Fabrics (anybody remember them?) and just bought fabrics that looked good together. I remember I had rayons, polys, and cottons in the mixture.