Camille from Thimble Blossoms and Carrie from Miss Rosie’s Quilt Company were hosting a first quilt….current quilt parade. I am late jumping on the band wagon, because my I had trouble defining which quilt is my first quilt.
This quilt, was made with crazy quilt blocks and pre printed fabric squares. I made it for Kelli when she was 2-she’s 22 now. My mom machine quilted it enough to hold it all together. At that point in my life I LOVED embroidery so I hand embroidered along all of seams of the crazy quilt blocks.
In the early summer of 1990, I went home to visit my parents, we had three kids under three years old and I was a stay at home mom with a husband who was working LONG hours. When I got to my parents, mom suggested that she watch the children and I go do her errands by myself. She new I was stressed and needed a break from the kids. While I was out shopping I bought a quilt magazine. In the days to come, I spent HOURS paging through the magazine dreaming of the quilts I wanted to make. My mom died that same year in early August. As a type of therapy, I started making one of the quilts in the magazine….Here is that quilt top. I have never quilted it.
I put quilting aside and had two more children. When our youngest was one, I took a quilting class for beginners. We were supposed to bring something we had sewn. I brought my quilt top. The instructor asked me why I was in class….after all if I had sewn a curved seam Druckard’s Path quilt, I certainly didn’t need a beginning quilt class. I laughed. I didn’t even know how to use a rotary cutter. I needed a beginner class. I stayed in the class and made this heart wall hanging.
To this day when I see a curved seam quilt like the Drunkard’s Path, I shy away and think it’s too hard. Isn’t it amazing what we can accomplish when we don’t feel intimidated? When I made those curve seam blocks all those years ago, I just looked at it as sewing curved seams in clothing. I had sewn a lot of clothing and wasn’t intimidated a bit. To this day, I still haven’t sewn another curved seam quilt. I keep thinking curved seams are too hard…maybe I should rectify that.
So which is my first quilt, I am not sure….Kelli’s clown quilt, the curved seam Drunkard’s Path or the heart quilt. As for my most recent quilt, I’ll show you that in my next post.