I made 3 rag quilts and then moved onto Sweet Pea by Anka's Treasures.

The Friendship star

This is fun - nice to see how we all started. Mine was a hand pieced ohio star - it was a single block that I needed to do for a friendship quilt. I had no idea what I was doing (and wouldn't be surprised if they'd needed to take it apart and start over. ) But, it got me to start pondering the idea of this as a hobby. Several years later, I did my first real quilt, and it was a rail fence.

My first quilt block was a bow tie following the instructions of the The Quilter's Bible, October 2011. (Still teaching myself with the sage advice and guidance of the awesome Quilting Board.) Best wishes to all for the New Year!

made a sampler quilt, the new basics by diane leone... 30 blocks. and the first one ohio star. lots of points missed but I love that quilt :)

I remember sometime in the late 70's I make a log cabin block with a red square in the center -- really do not know what happened to that one. Then I went to cathedral window blocks by folding and sewing by hand, still have the runner. Began seriously quilting in 1998 and quilting has been part my activities since. Retired in 2009 quilting is something I can do anytime and I do :) I am interested to see how others answer to this question.

Happy sewing in 2014

Judy in Phx, AZ

In the 50's, my mom went to a lot of seminars and took me (3-4 years old). She had made up a little suitcase from a cigar box and that little box held 32 different 3" squares. I would sit under the table and play with those squares laying them out in different designs. (those were my first quilts). I would be occupied with them for hours on end. There was a little boy there that had asked his mom for a pair of scissors and he whacked up all my squares. I remember sitting between my mom's legs crying quietly so I would not disturb her. She was so mad at that little boy and even madder at his mother for her cold response when she found out what he had done. I know I had made several small quilts for my doll beds and I did make several simple shirts and my dirndl skirts to match to start 1st grade. Yes, my mom was a home ec teacher.

Embroidered baby quilt was my first.

I went to a class called Quilt in a Day expecting to complete a queen sized one that first day!! Needless to say I didn't even know what colors or how much to buy or about 100 percent cotton. But since it was held in a fabric store in the late 80s I got the fabrics with the teachers help, it was mostly cotton, and started. I finished it by the end of class and tied it and still use it today happily twenty plus years later. It was double Irish Chain pattern with a patient teacher. I have continued and making quilts and am still going strong with my next birthday marking 88. It is working with colors I most enjoy not quilting or hand sewing if I can avoid it. My quilts usually make a trip to a LAQ and I give them away.

My first quilt was a Churn Dash in two colors; a print and a soilid.........in MAUVE. A bachelor won it in our church raffle!!! After all these years, he's still a bachelor; guess he never found a woman that liked it well enough to want to claim halvsies!!!!