Vanuatu Jill

Good job Sally-I admire those of you who take on a bed-sized quilt for the first one!! My second was a queen-but simple Irish chain with BIG blocks in between-only two colors-but after piecing and finishing about 1/2 the hand-quilting, I HATED it! I finally finished it after a 10-year hybernation in the bottom of the closed-only because I wanted to "practice" hand-quilting again before I made another quilt. It is the only quilt I didn't take a photo of!!! Think bright pink solid and black/pink rose print-with the same print for the backing! I actually used the same fabric for my appliance covers I just made (just posted pics of them)-doesn't look so bad in small doses!

klgreene

This was my very first quilt. All hand pieced and hand quilted. I also made matching pillows. I hung the quilt above my family room sofa and put the pillows on each end. These were just the beginning of quite a few hand quilted that I had done. And I must say, I did better quilting by hand than my #@%@#$ machine quilts now. The picture with the pillows is much better for the color. The rocker was one my dad was rocked in when he was a baby. He's be 84 if he was still living. And this was my sons teddy bear. But I think a girlfriend gave it to him in high school. I'm a smuck when it comes to keeping things like these.

Grandma58

I like it!

lighthouse

Thanks for sharing,,, I enjoy looking at everyone's first quilting jobs :-)

CAgirl1

Great job on your first quilt!! I think you did an amazing job on it.

I unfortunately don't have a picture of my first quilt (wallhanging actually) but I still have it is a log cabin wallhanging.

Lucymae

You did a great job for first time!!! :-) :-)

LAB55

All of them are beautiful first quilts.
I don't have any of my first ones.

Sewing Joe

I really like your quilt! My first quilt has happily been lost in the mists of time. I wasn't all that committed to having points line up or too worried about puckers quilted into the backing. It was fine for my son to puke and do other unspeakable things on.

fleurdelisquilts.com

I don't have a pic of my first quilt, either. It's the one I made when my boys outgrew their receiving blankets. (I pieced them together for the backing.) My youngest is now 26. That quilt was used! The boys would tie it up with string and make tents from the bunk bed to the door handle, a chair, dresser knobs, etc. It didn't matter. Some nights it took 10+ minutes just to get the quilt in bed! They'd all pile in the same bed in the winter, and we'd pile the quilts on top.

fayza

very nice :)