In 2003 the quilting bug bit me. It started out innocently. I saw a book called Nickle Quilts and thought it would be nice to pass some time sewing while the baby slept. Boy was I ever naive. I picked up some fabric, little bits here and there. Started cutting shapes, collecting more bits and pieces, sewing some and on and on I went. I was hooked and didn't even know it. With the little that I knew about quilting, how was I to know that one quilt comes after the next. Little did I know as well that the first quilt I decided to do was pretty ambitious for a beginner.
Along the way I've met some nice people, visited some quilt stores and tried to learn everything that I could. I was doing well just moving slowly along, getting the blocks done. One block at a time.
I managed to get to about one third of the way done when I thought, oh my, what have I gotten myself into! By that time it was too late. I took a break from this quilt to make some smaller quilts to learn different techniques. I needed to make a total of 144 blocks, each block has 24 pieces and each block finishes at 6 3/4 inch. I finally finished the quilt, quilted and all in April/2008. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole process from start to finish.
This is my quilt. It is a queen size quilt. Later in 2009, I entered the quilt in the guild show with another quilt I had made and this quilt had a note of honourable mention. The second quilt won 2nd place for Best First Time Entry, but that one you will see another time.
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