Edr

My mother gave me a bunch of miss matched square and said make a quilt top from them. This is what I came up with.

cjsews

Nice start to quilting

sewbizgirl

Cute… I haven’t seen that poly double knit in a long time. Your sewing is very accurate.

Edr

I am trying to learn auto upholstery and need to learn how to sew, so I ask my mother who is 84 to teach me. So she shows up at my house with a bag of fabric and says make a quilt. I ask her if she was going to help, she said I just did, gave you something to sew. See you in a week and be finished with the top!

I ask but what do you want it to look like? She said a quilt, duh! She said I have been around her and my grandmother quilting all my life I can do it. Oh and by the way these pieces are from your great nieces baby blankets so don’t mess it up there is no more material.

talking about pressure, I did not have enough material left to make one more square.

it gets better so after she sees the top, she said that looks fine, now I need my driver seat in my van recovered. So I repaired it last week sewed in new panels in the cloth seat and reinstalled.

So I am confused, am I an upholster, quilter or just a man with a 2 sewing machines that will sew whatever someone brings me? Probably the latter. Because I also repaired my wife’s bra my dog chewed the strap into on..

all I know is I enjoy sewing.

Edr

Thank you, before retiring I was a project manger in New Orleans building and remodeling hi-rise buildings. Everything has to be square and plumb! Lol

Jingle

A very good start to learning how to sew. You did a great job on the quilt.

toogie

You’re on a roll! Once you learn to sew people will be bringing you everything. I think the second thing we need to learn is to say NO and that is not for New Orleans!—lol- I couldn’t tell if your squares were double knit like leisure suits were made of or fleece like we use today, but you did pretty good matching the seams.

Edr

Thank you, I am not sure of what kind of fabric it is, I know it’s not cotton. It stretches very easy making aligning the seams difficult. If it weren’t for clips I could not have been able to keep the straight.

I sewed this on a 1957 Kenmore 117.720 rotary machine.

thank you everyone for the encouragement and kind words.

SusieQOH

That looks great!!!

Homespun

Great job!!!