First quilts
#61
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Central Pa
Posts: 521
I didn't start quilting until after I got married. Maybe even after I had my first child. Hmmm. I can't even remember my first real quilt! I'm going to guestimate at about 14 years? I was making those cross-stitch baby quilts before that.
#62
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Sherman, NY
Posts: 7
This is my first time posting. I did my first quilt probably 15 years ago. Then last April or May I made another one and got the "bug". I made two lap quilts and 1 full size quilts for Christmas gifts. I have been enjoying reading this board for the last year. Just decided it was time to add a comment. Thanks for all your wonderful information for us newer quilters.
#63
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 538
I made a 'sorta' quilt about 20 years ago; I don't think there was any pattern, I think a cheater panel, some backing, and a pillowcase binding (ie: there was no real "binding" as I recall)...then I cut a ton of pieces out for a 'real' project (tracing around triangle templates...several hundred pieces later, I didn't want to do anymore, and it stayed in a plastic bag for years until I gave it away.)
This past Christmas, my penpal in Oregon decided we should exchange quilts (insert OMG shock face here because I didn't know ANYTHING about "real" quilting, and it was early December, and how the heck was I going to complete a quilt in time for Christmas?!)
So I buzzed a seller on etsy...asked her to put together a kit for me because I had NO idea what I needed, or how much I needed...found a simple D9P pattern, and made my way through it. Tied because I didn't know how to "quilt" it. This time, I put a wrap-from-the-back binding on it...so I'm getting better at the binding part, and soon I'll even put a real-live binding on one!
That second one actually gave me the quilting bug, so I'm on my way. I wish I'd been interested sooner (like when fabric wasn't 12.99 a yard!). Lots of catching up to do.
This past Christmas, my penpal in Oregon decided we should exchange quilts (insert OMG shock face here because I didn't know ANYTHING about "real" quilting, and it was early December, and how the heck was I going to complete a quilt in time for Christmas?!)
So I buzzed a seller on etsy...asked her to put together a kit for me because I had NO idea what I needed, or how much I needed...found a simple D9P pattern, and made my way through it. Tied because I didn't know how to "quilt" it. This time, I put a wrap-from-the-back binding on it...so I'm getting better at the binding part, and soon I'll even put a real-live binding on one!
That second one actually gave me the quilting bug, so I'm on my way. I wish I'd been interested sooner (like when fabric wasn't 12.99 a yard!). Lots of catching up to do.
#64
Welcome from NC! Glad that you've been bitten by the bug!
Alison
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