I never in a million years thought that I would want to quilt anything. I never had any quilts like most people did, nobody in my family had ever been a quilter. At least, nobody that wanted to hand them down to me. When I was taking classes at the Stitching Studio I started to notice all the cute quilts around the shop.
first quilt top -- not finished
Then I started browsing flickr for quilts that people had made and I realized that you CAN make modern, pretty quilts. So, I enrolled in a 6-week quilting class at the studio. I learned SO much! Aimee and Jackie, my mother-in-law, both took the classes with me. We learned a ton about color matching, so our first quilts weren’t exactly right when it came to that. Since then, I’ve done much better!
2nd quilt, not so perfect!
On top of the small lap quilt we were making in class, I decided to start another quilt on my own in unison. This one, I went out on a limb and learned a few new techniques on my own, outside of class. Both of these quilts are finished, I just don’t have recent pictures. Maybe they’ll come soon.
I laugh when I look at this quilt. Although my instructor was impressed (she called me brave!) and told me never to point out my flaws, this is my blog so I’ll point them out ;) I really did have perfect points on this one, it came together so easily. Then I cut the solid squares out too small (bad math) and because I had bought fat quarters, I didn’t have enough to fix it without just cutting off my points. So there you have it, a very wonky Ohio Star quilt. I learned a lot though, and that was the purpose!
