Thursday, May 8, 2014

Mom's Quilt

It's close to Mother's Day so I thought I would start my blog with this quilt- a gift of love for my mommy made in 2012. I was just starting to understand the world of blogging and learning new words like "piano keys", "free motion quilting" and "curved piecing" so I tried them all!
















                                             

 I was so pleased with myself! Especially with my color choices. This is when I decided I could not get enough of color!

 Or enough of fabric! I'm known as a very frugal person... Okay... a tightwad.  But for some unknown reason when it comes to fabric it was hard to stop myself. With normal shopping, whether for groceries or shoes, I always have a pretty good idea as to what I am spending. But when I get to the counter at Joann's or a LQS and say, "How much?!" and then to my daughter's surprise SPEND THE MONEY we gotta figure something has changed.


 Another change since I started quilting is my lack of fear. I had no idea what I was doing when attempting this giant curve. I remember telling myself, "It will be okay. If I can't rip the stitches out to fix any mistakes I can just cut it all up into smaller pieces and make another quilt." So I just layered the fabric, grabbed my new rotary cutter and went at it!

Yeah, and then there is free motion quilting. Setting more fear aside I scribbled all over the quilt. I'm so very glad I've improved on this. HA!

2 comments:

  1. its very pretty...... please stop back by my blog and see the button on the side about making your blog beautiful, One thing you need here is a Blovin button for us to join you.. keep in touch..

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    1. I went to the site and had trouble with the instructions so I googled it and was able to get the button. Yeah me! So the "Follow by email" doesn't seem to work. Do you know anything about that?

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