Anyway, here's the final result:
Acknowledgments:
1. Thank you to Auntie Colleen for helping me find a pattern.
2. Thank you to the good folks at the cutting counter at JoAnn Fabrics for reassuring me that sewing a quilt isn't that hard.
3. Thank you to my sister, Katie, for taking a high school quilting class just so that she could machine quilt this one. (Okay, so she didn't take the class just for this reason...but it was definitely good timing!)
4. Thank you to my friend, Sarah, for teaching me how to do the binding.
5. Thank you to to my mom for making a long-distance last-minute fabric purchase so that I could have better material for the binding.
6. Thank you to Blake for putting up with my frustration every time my sewing machine got jammed.
7. And lastly, thank you to all the people I keep showing it to for putting up with my excitement over my new-found ability.
7 comments:
Lindsay, I am definitely impressed! Your quilt is beautiful. Maybe you'll have to give me pointers!
WOW! I am so impressed with your mad skills! I love it! Good work, girl.
WOW! I'm impressed.
Lindsay--Just finished The Time Traveler's Wife, at your reccomendation. I had to laugh when I came to the assorted colorful languages, since I had indeed been warned. But whoa, cool story. I was amazed that I was so invested in what could have been a cheesy concept for a book. I cried too, don't worry. The part that first got me was when he runs into Alba at seven or so and realizes he has dies. Although, since having a baby I cry at a LOT of things I wouldn't have before--you might be in trouble someday! Thanks for the reccomendation!
Thank you for the pic.
It's fantastic! I'm really into the whole red, white and blue color schemes these days because they seem totally universal and timeless. That quilt will look good in 10 years or 50 years. Unlike some of the early 80's quilts I have hanging around my house...
I know how much work this must have been for you! Big congrats on your first quilt! Will there be more?
Thanks, guys, for your kind compliments! It was fun to make, and I do intend to make more. Because, I mean, now that I know I apparently have a few quilting skills (as Napoleon might call them), I might as well put them to use.
And AmyJane -- glad you liked the book! Now you should read Peace Like a River by Leif Enger. I just finished it...it's pretty fabulous.
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