What better quilt to share in the Bloggers’ Quilt Festival than my very first full-sized quilt?
My mother was an avid quilter as I was growing up. Finally, the years of watching my mother create warm and beautiful quilts compelled me to start one of my own. During high school, I borrowed a thin book on Log Cabin quilts and painstakingly designed my quilt on graph paper. While it was a very traditional pattern, I made it my own by changing the traditionally red center to purple. My mother and I poured over bolts and bolts of fabric to find just the right ones. I was so terrified of making a mistake that I had her cut all my fabric. For some reason that I don’t remember, I had decided to make a queen sized quilt. I didn’t even have a queen sized bed when I started. It took me two years to piece the top and two years to hand quilt it. I love how it turned out, but wish I had started smaller. This project taught me not to bite off more than I can chew, but also cemented my love of quilting. It now lives on our living room couch.
Rachel, this is still one of my favorite quilts, and I can clearly picture that graph paper, where you planned it all out! And I remember the 'aha' moment when you decided to make the center purple! This is an amazing first quilt! I'm honored to have been a part of your quilting heritage!
ReplyDeleteA wonderful quilt. Purple - Great.
ReplyDeleteGreat story and thanks so much for sharing your first quilt! It is beautiful and awesome that you stuck to it for that many years!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt. Sounds like it was a learning experience.
ReplyDeleteGreat story to go with a great quilt! Thanks for sharing!
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