On impulse, before I knew BAGD bought me a kick-ass sewing machine for Valentines Day, I picked up a book called First-Time Quiltmaking
I was pretty happy with it, but it was a kit and I wanted to make a “real” one someday. So, I bought the book. Then I went to Hancock Fabrics with Geetle to get fabric for my new dining room curtains (Mamaw makes them for me…thanks Mamaw!). While we were there, Geetle talked me into a yard of Ronald McDonald fabric for her, a yard of Iowa Hawkeyes fabric for BAGD and a yard of Little Einsteins for Pookie. I was supposed to make pillow cases, she said. Those are very easy, so I agreed. Well, then I got my Valentine’s present and I decided to jump into quilting. With BAGD’s yard of Hawkeye fabric and a little bit more, I made this:
Where the blocks line up, my corners are not perfectly straight, so rather than doing a “stitch in the ditch” I used a cardboard template to draw an “I” in the center of each yellow block and quilted those. It was hard, especially the binding. But I did it all by myself and I am happy. Its only about 3×3 so its a good size for Giggles. This is called a Double Patch pattern.
Next is the pirate quilt, it will be a single patch quilt with a border, lesson 4 in the book. My last one will be a 3 Rail Quilt. They’re all baby sized. I hope Giggles wants that many quilts. She barely wears the 23 hats I knitted her.
Liz said,
February 24, 2008 @ 10:15 am
I’m so impressed! And jealous! I started my kids’ quilts when I was about 20 weeks pregnant. And I finished the tops in one day. They’re still in that state, coming up on a year later. One of these days…
Aunt Shel said,
February 24, 2008 @ 2:44 pm
Bravo! You did it!
Rachel said,
February 25, 2008 @ 11:34 am
Wow! Those look so great! What is the name of the book you used? I would love to learn how to quilt. Those would make fabulous baby shower gifts!
beagoodmom said,
February 25, 2008 @ 11:41 am
Thanks Rachel.
The book is called First-Time Quiltmaking. There’s a link to the Amazon listing for the book up at the beginning of the post.
Rachel said,
February 25, 2008 @ 6:48 pm
oops sorry, it didn’t show up on the computer i was on earlier!