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Here's what I did this weekend:
My sister celebrated her birthday this weekend and I wanted to give her something really special. It's been a difficult several months for her and the day after her birthday was a very difficult day for her. SO, I dug out the quilt tops that our Aunt sent me. My grandmother was a tremendous seamstress. She made dresses for us quite often. When she died (about 30 years ago) my Aunt and father found quilt tops she had pieced together from leftovers of her sewing. They had a quilt made for each of the three grandaughters. Then, a few years ago, my Aunt was visiting from Florida and we spoke about sewing and quilting. I told her that I was interested in quilting. A few weeks later I found a box full of my grandmother's quilt scraps in my doorway. In the box were a few quilt tops.
My fear of the unknown kept me from doing anything with these quilt tops until this weekend. I bought material at Wal Mart to make a back for the quilt. I also bought a low-loft batting in a size larger than I needed so that I could trim it to fit the quilt top. It took a bit of piecing, but I managed to get the back the size I needed by sewing squares together. Then I put the back on my bed, the batting on top of that and the quilt top on top of that. I used some bright orange thread to make large running stitches all over the quilt. I used these instead of pins. Then I started in the middle making straight seams up the center of each square on the quilt. I worked from the middle out in both directions. I then cut the back and batting so that I could fold the border material around to the back. I ironed the border tucking it under, and stitched this around the outside and **voila**! My first quilt!
And Favor likes it too!
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Posted by Anonymous
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