King Me Grandma's Garden 1994 - 1999

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