Showing posts with label fat quarter packet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fat quarter packet. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

City Quilts Blog Tour Winner

I'm sure by now most of you saw the City Quilts Blog Tour going on in blog-land recently.  I was fortunate to win a fat quarter bundle of Pat Sloan's Sweet Liberty line of fabrics during her stop on the tour.  Tonight I got home from work and found the bundle waiting for me on my doorstep.


Now to decide what to do with it. Hmm......

Friday, May 29, 2009

My Second First Quilt

I made this quilt about 5 years after I made my first quilt.  Why is this my second first quilt? Because this was the first time I made a quilt top using a sewing machine and it was the first quilt I had made in about 5+ years and really got me back into quilting.  (Bentley just had to be in the picture)
What got me back into quilting, back when I was either a junior or senior in high school, was attending the Lowell Quilt Festival.  I picked up a fat quarter packet and this pattern and decided to give it a go.  This time, I did have a rotary mat and cutter, but I didn't know to use the ruler to measure and instead I used the lines on the mat.  I had never read any how-to quilt books or taken a class.  Considering that, I think it came out OK.  I think the placement of the fabrics and blocks was what impressed me the most after taking this out of a bag after several years.  Not had, eh?
With all that being said, there are quite a few errors.  Seams don't match up well and it doesn't really lay flat.  Oh well.  It's still fun to look back at where I started and see how far I've come.