My first completed quilt
10-06-2015, 07:06 PM
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My first completed quilt
I've been a lurker here for some time watching and reading as I dream about my quilting future....which seemed to be a "never" possibility due to time restraints. As life has thrown me some curve balls, I'm suddenly 'free' to venture into this dream. So last month I received a wedding invitation from a niece...the first of 17 to get married. Seeing so many of you post pictures of quilt gifts, I decided to make a quilt for my niece with maybe starting a tradition of doing so for each of my nieces/nephews in the future. I've started 5 other quilt tops in the past couple of years but they remain UFOs. Hmm...could I really get one finished in time? I found a free pattern on Connecting Threads called Moonshadow. I made a variation of that one...adding borders around the individual squares, and a double border around the entire quilt. I completed the binding last night. The wedding is this Friday in Ohio. I had to bring a machine to finish the quilting and binding while visiting this week. Here is the final product. I'm pretty excited about it even though I know there is much to do as far as improvements.....everything actually lined up fairly well, squared off superbly, and I overcame my fear of trying stippling. I quilted some random squares on the first border and spent nearly 5 hrs peppling the second border. I'm definitely planning my next quilt...a lap quilt for my mom with t-shirts from her 15 grandchildren.
10-06-2015, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Abashobbes
I've been a lurker here for some time watching and reading as I dream about my quilting future....which seemed to be a "never" possibility due to time restraints. As life has thrown me some curve balls, I'm suddenly 'free' to venture into this dream. So last month I received a wedding invitation from a niece...the first of 17 to get married. Seeing so many of you post pictures of quilt gifts, I decided to make a quilt for my niece with maybe starting a tradition of doing so for each of my nieces/nephews in the future. I've started 5 other quilt tops in the past couple of years but they remain UFOs. Hmm...could I really get one finished in time? I found a free pattern on Connecting Threads called Moonshadow. I made a variation of that one...adding borders around the individual squares, and a double border around the entire quilt. I completed the binding last night. The wedding is this Friday in Ohio. I had to bring a machine to finish the quilting and binding while visiting this week. Here is the final product. I'm pretty excited about it even though I know there is much to do as far as improvements.....everything actually lined up fairly well, squared off superbly, and I overcame my fear of trying stippling. I quilted some random squares on the first border and spent nearly 5 hrs peppling the second border. I'm definitely planning my next quilt...a lap quilt for my mom with t-shirts from her 15 grandchildren.
You did a great job, and I like the color combinations. Very nice.
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