First Quilts - A Virtual Quilt Show
Renee in Ypsilanti, MI
This is the very first quilt I ever made, well.. sort of. In 1980 I did artex paint a bunch of sun bonnet sues that were put on a blanket for the flower girl in my wedding. In 1981 I artex'ed some cardinals and sewed them on a bedspread type blanket for my grandmother. In 1983 I artex'd a baby quilt for liz while I was pg with her. Hmmm. .. I have no idea whatever happened to that! But this is the first real 'quilt' I made. I used scraps of the kids clothes (made all their clothes when they were little) and one day took out these boxes of fabric, cut out a 4 inch (approx) square of cardboard, and traced the darn thing all over the materials with colored pencils. Must have cut out a million of them things! LOL. Put them in a grocery bag and shook it good. Let Liz pick out squares for me to put together in the quilt. I made these huge long strips of one square width (this is about queen sized quilt and the squares wrap around the end and half way back up the back, LOL). Sewed the strips together. Filled with an old blanket and lined with a sheet. only did about 3 or 4 rows of 'quilting' as I did not baste it and I 'closed it' all around before quilting and so the materials all bunched up, so I quit quilting, LOL. But I still use this quilt every day!!!!! and I made it in 1986!
Renee in Ypsilanti, MI
This is the very first quilt I ever made, well.. sort of. In 1980 I did artex paint a bunch of sun bonnet sues that were put on a blanket for the flower girl in my wedding. In 1981 I artex'ed some cardinals and sewed them on a bedspread type blanket for my grandmother. In 1983 I artex'd a baby quilt for liz while I was pg with her. Hmmm. .. I have no idea whatever happened to that! But this is the first real 'quilt' I made. I used scraps of the kids clothes (made all their clothes when they were little) and one day took out these boxes of fabric, cut out a 4 inch (approx) square of cardboard, and traced the darn thing all over the materials with colored pencils. Must have cut out a million of them things! LOL. Put them in a grocery bag and shook it good. Let Liz pick out squares for me to put together in the quilt. I made these huge long strips of one square width (this is about queen sized quilt and the squares wrap around the end and half way back up the back, LOL). Sewed the strips together. Filled with an old blanket and lined with a sheet. only did about 3 or 4 rows of 'quilting' as I did not baste it and I 'closed it' all around before quilting and so the materials all bunched up, so I quit quilting, LOL. But I still use this quilt every day!!!!! and I made it in 1986!