Butterflyblue

Great seeing these pics!

I actually really like Eddie's quilt. It looks so put-together. All of this goes to show that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.

Rather B Quilting's quilt would be great for a little girl. And I used to have some of that butterfly fabric, I think there is some in my first quilt (which was just scraps I had leftover from sewing clothes and scraps I begged off of my mom).

stitchinwitch

nooooooooooo I LOVE that quilt!! Edddie - I haven't seen ANY of yours that I wasn't CRAZY about!

Butterflyblue

JJs - maybe what you need to do is find someone who is into astrology and offbeat things and give the quilt to them. That way, you know it has a good home, but you don't have to look at it.

I do think it's kind of a neat quilt, though I'm not into astrology. I just like the vintage fabrics and uniqueness of it.

BKrenning

I made this one strictly to practice with my PC Quilter on. I digitized most of the flowers in the quilting and every row is a different flower. The pattern is a simplified version of Warm Wishes. I think it was on McCalls or Quick Quilts. Basically a 3 rail fence alternating with a square and you turn the rails to frame the square.

I gave it to my oldest granddaughter (8 years old) to get it out of my sight. Her mother likes the bright on black designs and I normally do, also--just not like this. I even used a bright rainbow variegated thread to quilt it.

I did learn a lot about using my PC Quilter and digitizing patterns for it so it was worth it.

The second quilt was one of the first I ever made. I was teaching myself how to paper-piece, use templates, design my own blocks, color theory, etc. Then I had a large pile of blocks with basically the same color scheme but no way to quilt it with a 6" throat machine at the time so I quilted them block by block (Quilt as you go before I knew what QAYG meant) I used sashing strips front and back between the blocks but didn't make them large enough. The back is a really pretty sapphire blue flannel but I didn't pre-wash it so it pulled apart in areas so I loaded it down with Fray Check. Now I always pre-wash & dry flannel on the hottest setting.

My youngest son--about 8 at the time--loved it until he outgrew it.

Butterflyblue

The star sampler is beautiful! What is the name of the block that is first on the third row down? I saw a pic of it online and put one in a star sampler that I made, but I don't know the name.

BKrenning

I think that one is Barbara Fritchie Star. I've seen it with with the light/dark reversed, too. I was playing with half-square triangles when I made it.

Bevanger

ok don't get mad, but i love them all you guys..... your too hard on yourselves.

hereca622

Here is my quilt of shame. I don't like green to begin with and then I did not have enough of the purple butterfly fabric. I used every scrap of it and then pieced some blocks to fill in. The back is the Walmart butterfly fabric with purple & yellow butterflies on a blue background. I like the back. I even had it quilted, but have not added the binding yet. I am thinking about cutting butterflies out of the back fabric and ironing them on the front in flight from left bottom to right top. Maybe covering some of the filler blocks and green that I don't like. I have a lot of that fabric to play with.

katei

I'm not see any ugly quilts here. Give them all a cuddle!

dkabasketlady

I don't see anything wrong with anyone's UGLY quilts! Everyone has their own tastes!