What was pattern of your 1st Quilt and did you keep it?
#72
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 792
my first quilt was an embroidered cat quilt. I broke every rule known to mankind with that quilt!! I embroidered days of the weeks cats ya know, Monday is wash day etc, on an inexpensive pale yellow flat sheet, with a lower thread count. I transfered those kitty blox right side up and backwards, too, to get them to face the other direction. I quilted it all in about 2 dozen different color threads with big stitches and finished the edges by just turning the top and the back to the inside and ladder stitching it closed. I won first place and a blue ribbon at the state fair on that quilt about 2 weeks after I finished it when a friend secretly entered it for me . I did not know anything about it til the newspaper called me for a write up for the fair. I had made it for my friends first beautiful daughter.
#74
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Keene, New Hampshire
Posts: 4,211
Can't remember which of 2 was the first. I started in the 70s: Log Cabin (got quilted) or Postage Stamp (got tied).
I still have them both, can't use though, worn out.
One day they'll each be used as batts in quilts I'll keep for myself.
I still have them both, can't use though, worn out.
One day they'll each be used as batts in quilts I'll keep for myself.
#75
My very first pieced quilt was the pattern Antique Tile from Quilter's Cache. It taught me a lot....squares and rectangles. Got that down good, considering each block had 21 squares and from there I have branched out to half square triangles, which I think are absolutely fantastic - so many different designs you can make. It is still my favorite of all the quilts I have made. It is my life story in 35 12" blocks. Had it quilted professionally. (The only way to go for me)! It became my memory quilt.
Edie
Edie
#76
Originally Posted by PatchGirl
New to quilting and am curious as to what pattern you tried on your first official quilt? Did you keep it or give it away?
#77
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: clinton, tn
Posts: 223
Barn Door, made it huge to learn from it! The fabric ended up costing me about $300 altogether. Bought all the fabric from a quilting shop and the reds have some light spots over the years. My kids swear they'll fight over it, don't know why. I only have two other quilts that I've made, one of them is one I got back when my parents passed on.
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