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Posted by Joan E. on July 2, 2008, 10:34 am
Well, I've finished my first quilt. It's for DD. You can see pics of
it here:
http://community.webshots.com/user/ndjoan
and in rctnp. Don't look *too* closely or you'll see my mistakes!
LOL It was a practice piece for a different quilt I want to make in
darker teal, cream & gold, with daisies & buds on it. I think I'd
better practice some more, though, before I start on that! :)
I've also posted some pics of my flower beds, particularly interesting
is a purple & white striped iris.
Joan
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Posted by ellice on July 2, 2008, 11:19 am
> Well, I've finished my first quilt. It's for DD. You can see pics of
> it here:
> http://community.webshots.com/user/ndjoan
> and in rctnp. Don't look *too* closely or you'll see my mistakes!
> LOL It was a practice piece for a different quilt I want to make in
> darker teal, cream & gold, with daisies & buds on it. I think I'd
> better practice some more, though, before I start on that! :)
Looks just great, Joan. And, most importantly - you FINISHED it! My
"first" quilt- is still sitting downstairs - in the sewing visinity -
waiting to finish being sandwich pinned and quilted. But, hey, what's 9
years for a project... No doubt Mandy will love it.
> I've also posted some pics of my flower beds, particularly interesting
> is a purple & white striped iris.
>
Very nice. I'm depressed in that I have to find some garden time - way,
way, overdue. My lavendar has taken off like crazy, and some perennials I
thought gone are blooming - wow. But, "Cousin It" - as we refer to the
Weeping Pussywillow - has gone nuts and has really spread more full than
expected (it's a dwarf hybrid thing - made by grafting a weeping head onto a
straigth willow base - looks like a huge toadstool now) so I think that I
may be moving some plants that are too near.
Anyhow - lovely garden. I'm thinking that I'll be in the yard part of this
weekend, and the 4th. Before our neighbors really make more fun of us
(something about the dandelion weeds growing in our formerly nice lawn).
Ellice
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Posted by Karen C - California on July 2, 2008, 1:02 pm
ellice wrote:
>
>
>>Well, I've finished my first quilt. It's for DD. You can see pics of
>>it here:
>>http://community.webshots.com/user/ndjoan
>>and in rctnp. Don't look *too* closely or you'll see my mistakes!
>>LOL It was a practice piece for a different quilt I want to make in
>>darker teal, cream & gold, with daisies & buds on it. I think I'd
>>better practice some more, though, before I start on that! :)
>
>
> Looks just great, Joan. And, most importantly - you FINISHED it! My
> "first" quilt- is still sitting downstairs
MY first quilt, after 20 years of being carried from apartment to
apartment, was finally boxed up and sent to a friend who actually does
quilt, with instructions to finish it whenever she next needs a wedding
gift for me.
--
Karen C - California
Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com
Finished 6/28/08 - Dimensions "Wolf"
WIP: Christmas Music Bellpull, Oriental Kimono (Janlynn),
MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel,
Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!!
Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel
CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths
Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf
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Posted by Dawne Peterson on July 2, 2008, 2:24 pm
"ellice" wrote
> Looks just great, Joan. And, most importantly - you FINISHED it! My
> "first" quilt- is still sitting downstairs - in the sewing visinity -
> waiting to finish being sandwich pinned and quilted. But, hey, what's 9
> years for a project...
My first quilt isn't a quilt at all--it's a small quilted wallhanging which
I have some hope of actuallly finishing. I have quilter friends who coered
me into starting; I started with a small patchwork pillowtop with appliqued
hearts. Terrific because I could do all the patchwork by hand (having
Singerphobia) and just fused the appliques on and decorated them with
blanket stitch.
The wallhanging has been cut and the appliques (little sea turtles) fused
on; I now have the fun of embroidering some embellishments on them. I will,
however, have to face up to my fear of sewing machines to construct this
one, so hope that I can make the embroidery so good that I will be enthused
about putting it together.
After that (see, it is as bad as stitching for stash) I have another little
hanging using reproduction 1930s prints with 3 little aprons on it.
Dawne
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Posted by Lucille on July 2, 2008, 3:34 pm
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> "ellice" wrote
>> Looks just great, Joan. And, most importantly - you FINISHED it! My
>> "first" quilt- is still sitting downstairs - in the sewing visinity -
>> waiting to finish being sandwich pinned and quilted. But, hey, what's 9
>> years for a project...
>
> My first quilt isn't a quilt at all--it's a small quilted wallhanging
> which I have some hope of actuallly finishing. I have quilter friends who
> coered me into starting; I started with a small patchwork pillowtop with
> appliqued hearts. Terrific because I could do all the patchwork by hand
> (having Singerphobia) and just fused the appliques on and decorated them
> with blanket stitch.
>
> The wallhanging has been cut and the appliques (little sea turtles) fused
> on; I now have the fun of embroidering some embellishments on them. I
> will, however, have to face up to my fear of sewing machines to construct
> this one, so hope that I can make the embroidery so good that I will be
> enthused about putting it together.
>
> After that (see, it is as bad as stitching for stash) I have another
> little hanging using reproduction 1930s prints with 3 little aprons on it.
>
> Dawne
My first quilt project isn't a quilt either. It's a little wall hanging
made up of 3" squares, each with an odd shaped star that needs to be hand
appliqued. The prints are very old fashioned and it's all colonial colors
and tea dyed. It came to me in the year of the Bicentennial and was
started shortly thereafter.
I love the look of hand quilted things, but since I really don't much like
the process of quilting, I'm hoping that maybe it will be done before the
Tricentennial, but I wouldn't bet on that happening.
Lucille
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