Ok So the picture above is my very first quilt! I am so freaking excited!!!!!!! I really thought it was going to be very very hard. NOT AT ALL! this was so easy. Maybe it is just the pattern but I really liked it I even cut the strips in half to make the mini-version for a pillow! Talk about awesome so now I am on a home decor kick HA!
Okay so how in the heck did I get involed in quilt making? Who under 50 quilts? Well as some of you know I love to sew I had no plan to learn how to quilt however. I truly thought it would be too hard and really would try my patience. However my hubby's great aunt quilted and he likes her quilts soooo he asked if I would make one or learn how to make them. So while at the local store Stitch-n-time. I saw a class on beginners quilting for $25!!!! Talk about a bargain! Now that was only the instruction (always a hidden cost somewhere right?) Being the good folks that they are I was required to purchase the book the pattern was in so as not to violate copyright laws.(it really is how it is suppose to be done) So that was $27.95, then to get the yardage of the various fabrics I would need I spent about $30.00. Totally worth it since it came with service and i had enough left over to make the pillow cover! As I was trying to pick out fabrics (how is one suppose to automatically know what is going to look right together when in a pattern?) I asked the lovely ladies at Miram's Fabric store for assitance we spent probably 20 minutes looking at various colors and patterns until we picked my fabrics (which do go well together if I say so myself ;)) then there was the batting and the thread, oh and let's not forget the special foot for my machine or the hair clips ----I mean binding clips.(they really do look like hair clips I think they are) roughly another $35.oo so I spent $115.00 to make my first quilt but I did enjoy it I learned a lot and I can reuse everything but the fabric and batting so the quilt really only cost $40.00 to make a lap or crib size quilt.(now you know why those quilts at the fair are so expensive!) I did fairly well for my first quilt though I may take the class again in order to refine my basics before I move up the ladder in quilting.
All in all it was totally worth the money and totally fun! Who would have thought a girl in her 20's (ok almost 30) would enjoy quilting!
Until next time.....
Wow , i love your quilt.. It is something that i want to learn to do properly myself, but the classes in the Uk are in excess of seventy pounds, without the material.
ReplyDeleteHowever there are classes now opening up in out library so maybe i will try and learn there .
Thankyou for the inspiration .
saffy
If you can get a copy of 'Still Stripping after 25 years' by elanor burns, this pattern is on page 215. The instructions and pictures make it fairly easy to follow without a lot of help. Thanks for Reading!
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