Show me your first quilt
07-15-2010, 05:26 PM
#93
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Wow, these quilts are all beautiful... can not believe these are 1st quilts... I will try and get a pic of mine, given to my mom... I still don't feel that I quilt as well or have taken on the challenges that you wonderful quilters have...
07-16-2010, 03:07 AM
#95
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Originally Posted by Sheree from Chicago
Your quilt is beautiful! I love the colors! Hope your friend is winning the battle!
Here is a pic of my first quilt.
Here is a pic of my first quilt.
07-16-2010, 03:13 AM
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I don't have pics of my first - I made it 25 or so years ago. It was a trip around the world in blues/mauves. Very large, tied, thick batting.
But I do have some other firsts... my first FMQ on a "real" quilt (really hard to see the quilting), and my first paper-pieced quilt.
But I do have some other firsts... my first FMQ on a "real" quilt (really hard to see the quilting), and my first paper-pieced quilt.
first FMQ
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first paper-pieced
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07-16-2010, 04:09 AM
#97
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sounds like my first quilt. I did use a rotatry cutter and strip pieced it but missed the part about all seems being exactly 1/4 inch. I was very proud of it (christmas quilt, beautiful) but then when I looked at it years later I thought, how awful! None of the corners matched, it was wobbly wavy and the gold trim I put on the edge shrunk more than the fabric did! ;) but it got me started!
07-16-2010, 04:36 PM
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Thanks for starting this thread, Mel. I'd been thinking recently of doing the same thing. Here is my first quilt and its story:
Dec. 1990, I wanted to make a quilted wall-hanging for my mom. A dear family friend and amazing quilter offered to help me get started. After selecting the pattern, we went down to the small LQS (only place in town that sold fabric). I was SO GREEN! Although both my friend and the shop owner suggested I look through the FQ basket, that didn't seem like much fun. The wall of bolts was so enticing! I'm embarassed to admit that the lovely shop owner spent well over 1/2 hour cutting 1/4 yard cuts from about 30 bolts! This was small-town Alaska where everyone knows everyone. The shop owner knew me and was so gracious. She never once was discouraging even though she was doing much more work than necessary, as many of the fabrics I chose were, in fact, in the FQ basket.
This was my freshman year in college and while I got the top pieced and all the hearts fused, I didn't get it finished in the couple of weeks I had at home. I couldn't bear to leave it behind when I headed back down South for school, so I took it with. Semester after semester, it quietly sat in my bottom drawer. I would work on it a bit here and there over Christmas and summer breaks, but never during the school terms. Finally in August 1993, I finished it. 2 years and 8 months . . . and it's only 20" square!! A bit embarrassed by that too. I can say I'm a mite faster now. LOL. It's machine pieced, fused applique blanket stitched by hand, then handquilted.
(Oh, and I kept it. I made a different one for my mom a few years later.)
Dec. 1990, I wanted to make a quilted wall-hanging for my mom. A dear family friend and amazing quilter offered to help me get started. After selecting the pattern, we went down to the small LQS (only place in town that sold fabric). I was SO GREEN! Although both my friend and the shop owner suggested I look through the FQ basket, that didn't seem like much fun. The wall of bolts was so enticing! I'm embarassed to admit that the lovely shop owner spent well over 1/2 hour cutting 1/4 yard cuts from about 30 bolts! This was small-town Alaska where everyone knows everyone. The shop owner knew me and was so gracious. She never once was discouraging even though she was doing much more work than necessary, as many of the fabrics I chose were, in fact, in the FQ basket.
This was my freshman year in college and while I got the top pieced and all the hearts fused, I didn't get it finished in the couple of weeks I had at home. I couldn't bear to leave it behind when I headed back down South for school, so I took it with. Semester after semester, it quietly sat in my bottom drawer. I would work on it a bit here and there over Christmas and summer breaks, but never during the school terms. Finally in August 1993, I finished it. 2 years and 8 months . . . and it's only 20" square!! A bit embarrassed by that too. I can say I'm a mite faster now. LOL. It's machine pieced, fused applique blanket stitched by hand, then handquilted.
(Oh, and I kept it. I made a different one for my mom a few years later.)
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