King Me Grandma's Garden 1994 - 1999

Caryl Anne — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:24:11 GMT

June 1994: I found a pamphlet from McCall’s at a garage sale for $.25 and the pieced quilt looked so pretty, I just thought hey I can do that! I bought some pretty fabrics and read the directions, then started cutting out using my newly learned rotary cutting method. I cut and cut and cut for weeks. Then I moved. A few months later I found the box of cut fabric; re read the instructions and dug in to the new project. I had set up my sewing cabinet in the area for a washer and dryer in my new apartment. I had to use the dining room table to lay stuff out to pin, and then move it gingerly to the sewing machine. I read somewhere to chain piece similar parts, wow that made it quite a bit faster. After all the units/blocks were finished I just used my bed to lay them out in rows, one row at a time. It took about a year to finish the top, and then find a border fabric and packed it away to have it quilted. After moving again in 1996, I had a bigger area to sew, however by that time my crafting sewing business had grown and I had no time to take for this project. In 1999 My Mother found the bag with the finished top and took it to the Senior Quilter's to hand finish for my 50th B-day gift from her. Was I surprised when I received it, as I didn't even know Mother knew about where it was? Sew: my second quilt was a whopper

My First Quilt 1993 Rail Fence

Caryl Anne — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:38:10 GMT

Feb 1993: With the lessons paid by sister Susan, I joined a beginners’ 4 week class at QQ in Friendswood. I had no desire to do quilts, as I was making clutch bags and totes for sale along with aprons for my craft shop stall. I was still doing fashion sewing for my daughter and mother, & darn it Susie, I was TOO busy to take classes, but I did for her. Susie is my next sister in age and can be quite persuasive when it comes to what she needs; she needed to learn how to make a quilt for her only child David for graduation from High School. So hence her sewing sister, that be me, needed to know how to do all of the steps. Susie attended two classes and did a bit of cutting, even then I knew that she was not going to be able to finish this class, she was at the time a L&D nurse in charge at a hugely busy maternity hospital.

I finished the piecing and the top was quilted by machine on a baby lock with just stitch in the ditch technique. I thought i was done forever.

See the next project. King me for my bed, grandma's garden pattern by McCalls

Carylanne's Gallery : Pieced Blocks, Machine Piecing

King Me Grandma's Garden 1994 - 1999

My First Quilt 1993 Rail Fence