Quilting Project

9th February 2008

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I am very pleased with myself. I have only ever made one quilt before in my life and it was a very simple baby quilt that I made last summer under the very watchful eye of my mom, an expert quilter. While I’ve never made any other quilts, I do love them and my house is full of them, all made by the hands of my mom or sister.

I do however shop at quilt shops. I love their fabrics and some shops also carry a few other items such as fabric bag patterns, something I do make. Recently, while at my local quilt shop buying fabric to craft more bags from, I saw a quilt that I adored hanging on their wall. It was comprised of 12 different quilt blocks surrounded by a border and was called the “Be Attitudes” quilt. The shop was offering it as a quilt block of the month club and I just couldn’t resist.

The blocks themselves are fairly simple, crafted from rectangles, all with straight seams, no curves. So, yesterday, I sewed my first block together.

I then cut out the pieces to create the snowman applique and placed it on top of the block.

This morning, I used a machine button stitch to stitch around each piece to give it a hand sewn look. I still have more applique to add and there is some embroidery to do on this block before it’s done. I was just so excited about it that I wanted to share!

Tags: block of the month, fabrics, quilting

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1 On February 9th, 2008, jenny-up the hill said:

Sheesh-a-moley! You are FAST! I’m really impressed!lol! I love the colors…and the big mittens! You’ve done a great job!

posted on February 9th, 2008 at 5:44 pm

2 On February 9th, 2008, lynne said:

Thanks Jenny! I’m really excited about it! I still have to trace and cut out the letters to make the words that have to be appliqued on the block, but I’m hoping I can work on that tomorrow. Then I have to do a couple little embroidery designs and I’ll be done with this block. I all ready have the next block waiting to be worked, that might have to wait a few days. I’m really enjoying it much more than I thought I would!

posted on February 9th, 2008 at 7:52 pm