Do we keep our very first quilt?
#82
I have made 29 quilts and do not have one! I had a memory book with pictures and stories of each quilt - but lost it in Hurricane Katrina. Family members have most of them, so I do see them from time to time. First one? Keep it!
#84
So far all of my finished quilts have been for someone else, as well as most of my UFOs/WIPs. My daughter keeps trying to talk me out of the green one I'm working on that I say is MINE! I told her she'd get it eventually...
#85
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Daytona Beach Shores, FL
Posts: 2,352
My very first was made for my middle son and he has it. Where I'm not sure but his wife appreciates quilts and has kept several I made they are really raggy so I knows it's at their house. The second I have. since then I've made lots and only have a few. I generally make them for gifts.
#87
I don't have any quilts I have made (10 so far)...they were all gifts or sold. My first was given to the person who purchased a book and CD to teach quilting....then the second companion quilt....BUT...I have kept a 'diary' of the quilts I have completed.
#88
I gave away my first FINISHED quilt. It was a baby quilt. I took photos of it but was happy to give it away for it's intended use: a baby.
Your first quilt is great. I see much more freedom in your fabric selection than I had starting out and I like the variety. :thumbup:
Your first quilt is great. I see much more freedom in your fabric selection than I had starting out and I like the variety. :thumbup:
#89
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Southeast Iowa
Posts: 428
My first quilt was a large lap quilt, that was a challenge quilt in the guild that I had just joined. It was a quilt for a Wounded Soldier, and they never got mine sent, and gave it back to me. It will finally be sent off this fall with some others. They asked if I would like to keep it, since it was my first, but I told them that I made it for a Soldier that has fought for my freedom, and that is who should get it. I have only kept 3 small wall hangings in 6 years. One was a practice watercolor, and two others were challenge pieces for quilt shows. Everything else I make and give away. I keep saying, someday I will make something for me. :)
#90
Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Penndel
Posts: 68
I gave my first quilt to my 14 year old son. I was shocked that as I was finishing it, that he asked who it was for. I had planned on keeping it for myself. He said that he wanted it, so how could I not let him have it. Since then I have made him a quilt for his high school graduation and a Christmas quilt- using Charlie Brown/Peanuts fabric, but he still has that first quilt on his bed.
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