In honor of National Quilting Day, I thought I would post pictures of my very first quilt. I am calling my blog The Quilted Turtle after all. It’s about time I posted some quilts, don’t you think? Looking back on this quilt now, almost 20 years after I started it, (ouch! can it have been that long? am I actually old enough to say that?) I love it and hate it at the same time. (Well, not really hate, I just wish I'd done a few things differently...)
I love that it is 100% hand done – pieced and quilted. And despite the fact that it took me at least five years to finish it, that I stuck to it and didn’t break down and get out the sewing machine. Knowing what it takes to make a quilt completely by hand makes me appreciate my Bernina even more. I learned a lot making this Double Irish Chain; so I'm sending big thanks out to Janice and Trish for starting my love of quilting.
5 comments:
Amazing that it was all hand done! With that detail, it would have taken me longer than 5 Years. That is a great first quilt.
I think it's beautiful. And sure, I'll post my first quilt - in say 20 years when I make it :)
This is incredible... and that fact that it's hand done... well... even more so! I like the blue and the pink... they go well together.
My first quilt isn't nearly as beautiful...
Enjoyed reading how you celebrated St Pat's/Easter with the kids - and the pillowcase dresses should look lovely!
Wow, Liz I would have to say this is beautiful. I finally finished my first quilt this past winter. It was two years and one long weekend in the making but I was pretty proud of how it turned out. I'll bring it up with me this summer. Its lust a simple baby quilt, but I love the way some of the vintage fabric turned out. I think K or S will enjoy carting it around for a while. I'd up load it now, but it takes forever.
This is much more complicated and a bit larger sale than mine is. Its amazing that you did it all by hand.
I have come to know my way around a sewing machine a little bit this winter, maybe we can do a project together this summer.
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