Amy at Park City Girl is hosting a Fall Quilt Festival. Here is my entry.
This is the first quilt I ever made. The year is 1996. I drafted it out on graph paper then cut template plastic for each shape - even the teeny tiny triangles. I used a clear quilter's quarter to add the seam allowances and cut each piece out with scissors. It is all hand pieced and hand-quilted using the stab-stitch method. I totally didn't know anything about quilting and had not even seen a quilting magazine before. But this was logical to me. Can't remember what type of wadding was used, but definitely not a natural fibre! In fact the fabrics are probably poly-cotton.
This was made for my #2 daughter as a Barbie quilt. She loves it and still keeps it on top of her dresser. She has kindly lent it to me for a photo shoot.



Cheers
Shari
11 comments:
What's a lovely first quilt! Enjoy the festival, I love your bottle brushes header as well - Hugs Natima
Great job for a first quilt. Aren't you glad rotary cutters were invented!
Very cute!
oh...lovely quilt
Love your first quilt!!
What a sweet little quilt! I like your daughters idea of using it as a mini runner. I'll have to tell my niece to do that with her little doll quilt.
What an incredibly sweet quilt - I don't like purple but it is absolutely darling and I love that you hand-pieced it. My first quilt was handpieced too, and I used cardboard templates! Glad those days are gone, lol.
Thanks for sharing this beauty!
That's a well treasured first quilt and its nice that your daughter lent it to you for the Festival :) A lot of work went into that small quilt! Thanks for sharing your quilt's story.
Beautiful. Love the design, & colors. Just a delightful quilt. Thanks for sharing and thanks for participating in the Bloggers Quilt Festival.
SewCalGal
www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com
Very beautiful quilt
.Greeting Marika
What a sweet little quilt. Tell your daughter thanks for sharing the story.
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