So, I have been off of my blog for SO LONG!!!!! However, while I may have lost the few people who followed me, I am still going to give this another go. This spring I took a sewing class (made pillowcases table runner and a bag) and found that I am in love with it...more specifically, quilting! My class wasn't on quilting, although my teacher is a fantastic quilter. I bought a book "Quilting for Dummies" and started watching quilting videos on Youtube. My first quilt was using my leftover material from making a rag quilt comforter. I just kind of tried to make a pattern...with the help of my lovely husband. It was so much fun! Lots of errors and a great learning experience. I love it!
I have now started working on my second quilt. It has taken me a lot less time than the previous one. I guess I did learn something! lol If I could spend all of my time quilting, I certainly would. However, my little squirts and life dictate that I don't do that. I will be blogging about my quilting experiences in addition to my life as well. I can't wait to see any progress that I make!
This is the front of my first quilt. I LOVE the colors!
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| This is the back! |
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| I did diagonal lines around the borders and stippling in the middle. |
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| My sweet mutt, breaking it in! |
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| Folded up and ready to go! |
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| My second quilt top, pieced, pinned and ready to quilt! |
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| The quilting pattern is squares and lines |
4 comments:
Welcome back to the blogging world!!! I love reading other people's blogs, but haven't been very good at keeping my own blog up. I will need to work on that. Thanks for the inspiration!
I LOVE your quilts. They are beautiful and never would have guessed that they are beginner quilts. Great job!!! I am impressed :)
Love the color,texture design wow
Welcome Back!!! I left the blogging realm, it looks like, in October of 2010.
A few questions about quilting. How do you afford this? I went looking for supplies for the stacked squares quilt and priced it at over $100 to just get the fabric. So it's gonna take me a while to assemble all the items needed and going to try and use a lot of the 40-50% off coupons.
Next, where do you take your quilt to be, I don't even know what it's called, "sewn", I guess the actually "quilting" part? and about how much does that set you back?
I know I would love doing this, it's just gonna take a while.
Thanks for any advice.
Hello! You just commented on my blog post for a giveaway of quilter's rulers. Did you know you're a "no-reply" blogger? That means if your name is chosen, I will be unable to contact you to tell you you've won.
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