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If anyone were to ask me when my quilt journey began, I would tell them I started quilting in November, 2016. I made a jelly roll race quilt, and I remember it took way longer than the youtube channels said it would. I was hooked!
In truth though, my very first quilt was finished March 11, 1989. I can only be so specific because Mom wrote the date on the back of the photo. 😊 It was a baby quilt for my nephew Michael, who was born as a preemie in November, 1988.
I was into counted cross stitch at the time. The magazine I subscribed to had an issue devoted to a baby quilt. It had several designs (more than what I used) and instructions how to put them together. I did not own a quilting ruler or a rotary cutter. You can see the results were rather wonky! I learned a very important lesson — never take quilt instructions from a cross stitch magazine! I also swore I would never make another quilt again. The quilt was not bound, I sewed it right sides together and turned it inside out. My Texas sister added ties to the quilt later, because who knew you were supposed to do that? The baby dragon is still my favorite design on the quilt.
Fast forward 28 years to 2016. I saw Jenny on a youtube video, thought: “I can do that!” and here we are. I decided it came out too square — I expected more of a rectangle — so I added a row to the top and bottom to lengthen it. My jelly roll race languished as a UFO, in various stages of completion, until January, 2020.
Quilt top #2 I called my “scrappy” quilt. I finished the top February, 2017, and it sat as a UFO until June of last year. I’m not sure why I waited so long to quilt it. Someone posted a thread about what our favorite finish of 2020 was. This is mine! It is just a happy quilt to me. That’s my bunny, Willow, on the quilt.
The last quilt is actually what I consider my first finished quilt. It is a modified version of Jenny’s wallflower pattern. Mom’s favorite flower is a daisy. I made it for her in time for Mother’s Day, 2017. I quilted it on my DSM, but hand quilted around the daisies. This is my one and only foray into hand quilting.
Thanks for looking!
If anyone were to ask me when my quilt journey began, I would tell them I started quilting in November, 2016. I made a jelly roll race quilt, and I remember it took way longer than the youtube channels said it would. I was hooked!
In truth though, my very first quilt was finished March 11, 1989. I can only be so specific because Mom wrote the date on the back of the photo. 😊 It was a baby quilt for my nephew Michael, who was born as a preemie in November, 1988.
I was into counted cross stitch at the time. The magazine I subscribed to had an issue devoted to a baby quilt. It had several designs (more than what I used) and instructions how to put them together. I did not own a quilting ruler or a rotary cutter. You can see the results were rather wonky! I learned a very important lesson — never take quilt instructions from a cross stitch magazine! I also swore I would never make another quilt again. The quilt was not bound, I sewed it right sides together and turned it inside out. My Texas sister added ties to the quilt later, because who knew you were supposed to do that? The baby dragon is still my favorite design on the quilt.
Fast forward 28 years to 2016. I saw Jenny on a youtube video, thought: “I can do that!” and here we are. I decided it came out too square — I expected more of a rectangle — so I added a row to the top and bottom to lengthen it. My jelly roll race languished as a UFO, in various stages of completion, until January, 2020.
Quilt top #2 I called my “scrappy” quilt. I finished the top February, 2017, and it sat as a UFO until June of last year. I’m not sure why I waited so long to quilt it. Someone posted a thread about what our favorite finish of 2020 was. This is mine! It is just a happy quilt to me. That’s my bunny, Willow, on the quilt.
The last quilt is actually what I consider my first finished quilt. It is a modified version of Jenny’s wallflower pattern. Mom’s favorite flower is a daisy. I made it for her in time for Mother’s Day, 2017. I quilted it on my DSM, but hand quilted around the daisies. This is my one and only foray into hand quilting.
Thanks for looking!
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