My First Quilts

Well, I have noticed that a lot of quilters have been reminiscing about their first quilts...so I thought I would dig out pictures of mine and share too. WOW, this is going back in time a bit. This Sampler Quilt was my very first quilt. I took a quilting class in 1986 and this is the quilt I made during that class. The whole quilt top was done by hand. I also quilted it by hand, but the binding was put on with the machine. At this point I really enjoyed piecing the blocks,but I had no love for the quilting part.






I took a break until 1988, then I made this 8-Point Star quilt for my husband for Christmas. Once again the pieced blocks were done by hand, as well as the quilting, but the binding was added by machine.
At this time I began to enjoy to do the hand quilting almost as much as the block piecing:) I finally got my fingers to cooperate with my brain, so that they quilted together :) My alternate blocks had a huge feather quilted in them.






Life got really busy with my 4 oldest kids being involved in every sport imaginable during high school, adoption of our two youngest children, and then came weddings, etc. Anyway my next quilt wasn't made until 1996 for my Mother-in-law for Christmas. I chose the Flying Geese pattern, swore I would never do that pattern again. Such small little blocks, way too time consuming, were my thoughs then... (ROTFL) and now I do Dear Jane blocks!!! How funny is that?



So there are my first three quilts. I must admit back in 1986, I never thought I would ever become addicted to quilting. And never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought I would be doing little, tiny blocks like the Dear Jane blocks. And no way back then would anyone have convinced me that I would ever applique!!! My how we change :) Too Funny.