Ok, here is the first quilt I ever made. I think it was around 1989 and I didn't have a clue how to begin. So, I went to the fabric store and got a pattern. Yes, a pattern. Like a McCalls or Butterick. You know, it's what you did when you wanted to make something back then. So, I cut out all my quilt pieces using a pattern. No rotary cutter or mat. Scissors, pins, and tissue paper pattern. OMG, how antiquated is that? But, I didn't know any better, regarding quilting.
Still, it got me started and I never stopped and I started amassing a quilting "stash" right away as all good quilters do.
This photo is not the best as it's scanned from a snapshot. My goal is to get all of my earlier quilt photos scanned and then create a CD for easier storage.
8 comments:
OMG, if we still had to create quilts using those techniques today, I'd give it up. LOL! Your first quilt turned out wonderful. Thanks for sharing it.
Oh pretty little quilt Terri!! IMHO a log cabin type quilt is the hardest quilt to make. It's so easy to end up with varying sizes of blocks.
I wish I had thought of taking pictures of my early quilts, I gave them all away so don't even have access to them.
Crispy
Very pretty little quilt Terri. When I started quilting there was no rotary cutter or mat. Only scissors and cardboard patterns. It was still a good learning experience, but the rotary and speed cutting revolutionized my quilting! Of course I also have way more UFO's too :-)
That's how I started quilting too...not from a pattern, but reading craft magazines etc and using scissors, templates, trace and cut. I drafted my first quilt myself...ALL triangles!!! Turned out to look like a star of David sort of thing; it was in ginghams for a baby quilt. Dah! Well, I've never been intimidated by triangles once I learned the easy methods of the rotary cutter. What a great invention! Yours is a nice quilt.
Yes quilting has certainly come a long way since then. I didn't start with that type of pattern, but I did have scissors and templates.
Oké, time for a confession: I STILL use home made sandpaper templates and cut my fabrics with scissors. I sew and quilt by hand and you know what? I love doing it that way :)Your first quilt looks better than my first though. I didn't know anything about contrast so it's an all the same pastel thingy...
It looks like you've made a lot of progress over the years....*S*
Your first quilt story is not unlike mine a few years earlier. I pinned the pattern pieces to the fabric and cut around them with scissors just like I would for a shirt. A am so glad the pattern said to use 1/4" seams or I would have used 5/8"!
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