Up North

My great Aunt quilted and hand quilted her quilts, I decided to try it so bought 1/4 yards of all kinds of fabrics, Found a pattern I liked and was off and running. I love to handquilt and did this one 1/4 or so inch from the seam. I was happy to have it come out half way decent, didn't know then that points were supposed to be hard to do.

jetnica

I wanted to do something with my sorority shirts. Knew that I was in no way shape or form a quilter, but I had to do something or they were all going in the trash. (I had designed many of them while active in the chapter...)

woody1229

My first actual quilting project was to create a quilt panel for the AIDS memorial quilt in memory of a dear friend who passed away in 1994. It was several more years later that I embarked on my next project, a quilt for my DD to take to college, a scrappy sampler using the 'fabrics of her life' - from all those halloween costumes, holiday dresses and craft projects we did over the years. My favorite square (with the 'W' on it) was made from her old school uniform that I cut up.

sidmona

This is my first quilt. It was machine pieced and hand quilted.

quilting.addict

Well, as I posted before, the first quilt I personally quilted was pieced by my great grandmother. The first one I actually did on my own was a lesson learner! I went to a quilt expo and bought a bunch of fat quarters. I did not even know what that was. Just loved the varigated fabrics I now know as Batiks. What did I learn after I followed instructions in a book for an Ohio Star block, made into this quilt? Design first, calculate fabric amount needed, make quilt. When you're limited by the amount of fabric, you get this way to small lap quilt. Oh, and when you sew the last two rows together at 3 am, you wake up to find it upside down. Someone told me to leave it as my humility row.
Only God is perfect!!
Funny, but I just noticed in the photo of my Newberry, SC photo quilt, it is laying on my great grandmother's hand pieced square in a square!

sewnsewer2

Wow, some of you jumped in with both feet! They all look great!! :thumbup:

I wasn't that confident with my 1st one. :lol: This is my 1st one made for a wedding gift. I learned from a book quilting for idiots or something like that.

They loved it and still use it daily. It is the ONLY one I have (or will) hand quilt!!

roseOfsharon

Holy Moley! I am being brave to post my first ..

grammy Dwynn

This is my first quilt, from my LQS's 101 quilting class. Unfortunately it has not been quilted yet, back is ready, binding is ready . . . . just have not gotten to it. :oops: I took the class in '03 :oops:

cjomomma

These are all lovely first quilts. I don't have a pic of my first quilt.

Grama Lehr

I never took a picture of my first quilt.......but I know that it's still being used, and it has been washed many, many times!! :lol: