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fishnlady, I love your quilt, what is the name of your pattern?

You CAN'T mess up! I told you, if it looks like something different than you planned, CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE! Enjoy!

Fishnlady, That's a BEAUTIFUL QUILT!!

My first quilt was a grandmothers flower garden pieced by hand over papers - I lined it and never got round to quilting it. I started it for my as yet unborn second daughter but like Topsey, it grew and is King size! Lynette-Merlin

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Originally Posted by wildyard

fishnlady, I love your quilt, what is the name of your pattern?

Thank you Linda and Lue for your compliments. Linda the name of it is called Round About the World. It was in a book called Tradition With A Twist by Blanche Young and Dalene Young Stone.
I thought the layout and instructions were quite easy to follow but of course it certainly was needful to do this in class for me since I had not done any quilting whatsoever before this. I have done a lot of learning from this forum and looked at a lot of tutorials online which gives me courage to tackle a rainbow design of my own to make a quilt for my Mother this winter.

The first quilt I ever made was when my daughter was born over 32 years ago. I wanted something special so I went to the library and got a book, sat down and started cutting, sewing (with lots of praying that it would turn out). She still has that tattered memory of a quilt somewhere in her trunk from Germany.

My very first quilt was a Rail fence baby quilt for our 1st daughter in 1985 ... I cut out every darn piece by template, pieced by machine & I hand quilted around every "rail"
It was almost my LAST quilt too, after all that cutting ! Thank goodness the rotary cutter & strip piecing came along ! :roll:

I made mine during December '06. It was made out of fleece. It had black and white nine patches with red filler squares that were as large as the nine patches. I didn't know how to bind so I had just turned in the seams along the edges and top-stitched the edge. It wasn't the prettiest, but it did the trick. It was tied, not quilted. It was given to my God son when he was born the following May. He still has it. Well, he's not all that into now because he's in a superhero phase so he gets excited about his Superman and Spiderman blankets and my quilt don't fit the bill. lol

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LOVE THE QUOTE AT THE BOTTOM.
Because I have to study really hard to be a C student

My first quilt was started because my younger sister was making her boyfriend a quilt with pieced fish, and I thought "That looks neat". I tried a block of the pieced fish, but didn't understand seam allowances, so it came out looking like a tree.

So I found this applique design in a book and enlarged it. The other squares were all scraps and some charm squares my mom had from a swap or something. I just randomly sewed them all together. I started it one summer after my junior year of college and didn't finish it until three years later (it just sat in a box in between). I wanted it to be a double, initially, but got tired of sewing squares together, so I made it lap size.

Now it is my TV quilt, and my daughter seems to really like the colorfulness of it.

This is the quilt I made when I didn't know how to quilt, so I ironed all the seams open (although my mom did tell me to use 1/4" seams) and some of the fabrics are not just poly blends, but also at least one that is pure polyester. I think there are a couple of rayons, too. Pulled the back around for binding and hand-tied it.