What Was The First Quilt You Made?
#71
Originally Posted by EmsMom
Thank you all so much for sharing your beautiful quilts and stories.
I am completely embarrassed to admit :oops: that I don't know any of the names of the quilts that are mentioned, i.e,. log cabin, etc. I sure hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew!
I am completely embarrassed to admit :oops: that I don't know any of the names of the quilts that are mentioned, i.e,. log cabin, etc. I sure hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew!
#72
Originally Posted by lass
Originally Posted by EmsMom
Thank you all so much for sharing your beautiful quilts and stories.
I am completely embarrassed to admit :oops: that I don't know any of the names of the quilts that are mentioned, i.e,. log cabin, etc. I sure hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew!
I am completely embarrassed to admit :oops: that I don't know any of the names of the quilts that are mentioned, i.e,. log cabin, etc. I sure hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew!
#73
My first quilt was a string quilt! My Grandmother showed me how to make one block using newspaper for foundation and scraps from our sewing. Over the years I've lost that quilt but not the memories of Grandma and I quilting.
#74
Mine was a sampler and would you believe that it isn't finished as yet....and that was 27 years ago.
Made 15 different blocks, put them together with sashings, ........and got 9 blocks handquilted......
and it is rolled up and packed away......out of sight......and am not sure if it will ever be a completed project. The entire quilt is hand sewn.
Can't count how many completed quilts I have made but that one remains in the bag !!!!!!!!!!!!
Made 15 different blocks, put them together with sashings, ........and got 9 blocks handquilted......
and it is rolled up and packed away......out of sight......and am not sure if it will ever be a completed project. The entire quilt is hand sewn.
Can't count how many completed quilts I have made but that one remains in the bag !!!!!!!!!!!!
#75
My first was a crazy quilt I made for my kids and liked it so much I made another on. I think back now and wonder what ever made me start making a quilt or a crazy quilt for that matter. I must have seen something on tv or something. But I'm glad I did. Now I've gone on to different quilts. None as some of the beautiful quilts I've seen on here, but beautiful to me and my kids. After that, I went on to 9 patch, star blocks and pineapple. With every quilt I learn more and try something just a little bit more complicated, at least for me. I'm teaching myself as I go along, and also with about 100 quilt magazines for instruction.
#76
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Hattiesburg,MS 39402
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I took children's coloring books and transfered Santas on fabric and embroidery them by hand. I was so proud of it I entered it in a show and the judge was not nice about it.
Scared me and it too years before I would enter anything else and this time will be the third time I've put something in a quilt show.
Scared me and it too years before I would enter anything else and this time will be the third time I've put something in a quilt show.
#77
I did a double irish chain for my mother's birthday. I bought a book and followed instructions. I bought exactly the amount of fabric that the book called for not realizing how many cutting mistakes I would make. When I started putting the thing together, I found out that it was a lot harder than I thought!
I needed more of some fabric and less of another. The fabric store didn't have any more and I couldn't find more anywhere! So my quilt was "pieced" together and no longer an irish chain!
But I finished it anyway, gave it to mama and she loved it! I have it today on my bed and I lovingly laugh at it each day as I smooth it down.
I still can't cut worth a dime and still sometimes run out of fabric, but somehow my quilts turn out ok anyway......at least I love making and giving them!
Roxanne
I needed more of some fabric and less of another. The fabric store didn't have any more and I couldn't find more anywhere! So my quilt was "pieced" together and no longer an irish chain!
But I finished it anyway, gave it to mama and she loved it! I have it today on my bed and I lovingly laugh at it each day as I smooth it down.
I still can't cut worth a dime and still sometimes run out of fabric, but somehow my quilts turn out ok anyway......at least I love making and giving them!
Roxanne
#80
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Dewittville, NY
Posts: 603
IT was a wall hanging of our flag (abstract sort of) with wavy strips. Actually I saw a picture of this flag and decided to try making it. My friend explained the 9 patch and so I sort of modified it to my mind and there it was (after a few ripppppppppppppppppps outs) I wish I know how to forward a picture cause I really am proud of this.
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