Have you ever been embarrassed by your earliest quilting efforts?
#31
Where does this mindset even come from. No one is an expert the first time they do anything. Did you love making and giving of your heart to your first quilt? You didn't stop, you keep doing and loving it and that is the whole and simple point of doing anything. Why would anyone be embarrassed by accomplishing some thing, no matter what it is.
Your quilt is terrific.
peace
Your quilt is terrific.
peace
#32
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lumby, British Columbia
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I took out a UFO that I completed the top on about 7 years ago. There were 8 sawtooth stars in the quilt. Why I thought it was okay to loose points??? Who knows. I tried to unsew it. But some of those points were loss. I fold it up and threw it back in the UFO pile. On to something else. There are more UFO's to finish where that came from.
#34
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Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
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Your quilt was made with love and nice materials. It only needed to upgrade to make you happier. That is a wonderful quilt. Just so you know that some of us made our first quilt completely wrong, I will tell you about my first ever attempt at quilting. Up until I tried to make my first quilt, I had only done sewing to fit people that were mostly done without patterns, since grandma Helen taught me to make clothes that way. She always bought new fabric when we sewed, so I did not know much about fabric at that time. When I saw my BFF's sister's first quilt, (a powder blue log cabin) that she had made in California at a "Quilt in a Day" class with Eleanor Burns. I thought, how hard could it be? Anything that follows that question should just be avoided in favor of taking a class to do it right. My first quilt was a "scrappy" (doesn't that mean whatever scraps you can find?) made of "found" fabrics, one of which was a former curtain from my BFF's mom's kitchen...I managed to get most of the corners to meet, the colors were playing well together, and I thought "wow, it was easier than I thought". I gave it to oldest DD, because she loved it. Imagine my horror when I washed it the first time, and every square made with the curtain fabric had dissolved! The whole quilt did not survive the first year! My DD has one of the squares that did survive, in her baby book captioned,"What is left of the first quilt mom made me". Anything less than this catastrophe of a quilt is a success. Never use former curtains in a quilt, since the sun will degrade the fabric too much to reuse. Lesson learned.
#35
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Your quilt was made with love and nice materials. It only needed to upgrade to make you happier. That is a wonderful quilt. Just so you know that some of us made our first quilt completely wrong, I will tell you about my first ever attempt at quilting. Up until I tried to make my first quilt, I had only done sewing to fit people that were mostly done without patterns, since grandma Helen taught me to make clothes that way. She always bought new fabric when we sewed, so I did not know much about fabric at that time. When I saw my BFF's sister's first quilt, (a powder blue log cabin) that she had made in California at a "Quilt in a Day" class with Eleanor Burns. I thought, how hard could it be? Anything that follows that question should just be avoided in favor of taking a class to do it right. My first quilt was a "scrappy" (doesn't that mean whatever scraps you can find?) made of "found" fabrics, one of which was a former curtain from my BFF's mom's kitchen...I managed to get most of the corners to meet, the colors were playing well together, and I thought "wow, it was easier than I thought". I gave it to oldest DD, because she loved it. Imagine my horror when I washed it the first time, and every square made with the curtain fabric had dissolved! The whole quilt did not survive the first year! My DD has one of the squares that did survive, in her baby book captioned,"What is left of the first quilt mom made me". Anything less than this catastrophe of a quilt is a success. Never use former curtains in a quilt, since the sun will degrade the fabric too much to reuse. Lesson learned.
#38
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Tn
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Shoot yes. I have sewn since I was 9 and always prided myself in my clothing looking as good or better than store bought. My first quilt was nowhere near this quality that I pride myself on. Points did not match. I used very cheap batting from Walmart. The back was a flannel blanket like you find in hospitals that my DS found at a yard sale. It was tied and after washing, there was no way you could say it payed flat. But, this is my husbands favorite quilt Go figure🤔
#39
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Grass Lake, MI and Bradenton, FL
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My first quilt block was awful. I didn't realize that following the side of my pressure foot was not a "scant quarter inch seam". Since it was made from a precut kit and included hst's the pieces did not fit together correctly. I have the square hanging on my wall in my sewing room and often compare it to my much improved (but still not perfect) blocks for encouragement.
#40
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Location: Round Rock,Texas
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I'm not ashamed of my first quilt at all, but rather amazed how I was able to make all those wonky squares come together at all. When I look at my early quilts and compare them 30 years later, it shows me how far I've progressed as a quilter.
I learned to sew with the sewing machine at 9 and by 12 I made my clothes and some for my younger sister. However I didn't make my first quilt until 30.
I learned to sew with the sewing machine at 9 and by 12 I made my clothes and some for my younger sister. However I didn't make my first quilt until 30.
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