My first quilt

Camille at Simplify and Carrie of Miss Rosies fame have a challenge to do a post about your first completed quilt and your last....okay here it goes!
Well it's not my very first quilt, but it's close. The first quilt was actually Eleanor Burns May Basket pattern and it was given to my niece when she was born and then I made the same pattern for my first daughter when she was born 7 months later. I don't have those quilts anymore or pictures of them so I thought I'd show you one that was right up there among the first quilts.

 

It's so ugly isn't it....I actually never really liked this quilt...remember this was probably 19 years ago and the fabric was purchased at Walmart and I quilted it myself on my little Kenmore. You know what though, this quilt has been used by my family more than any other quilt that I've made. It's the "picnic quilt" and it's been camping, to outdoor concerts, 4th of July and it's covered up more than one sick girl around here. It's also been washed and dried more times than I can count and it's still in one piece, sort of!

Okay here's a picture of the second to last quilt that I finished totally(the last one was my Mom's basket quilt and the pictures are terrible).

 

Yes it's my Dear Jane I'm sure that some of you have seen many versions of this quilt on many blogs around the world, but mine is supposed to look like the orginal. I've started a new DJ quilt, but I haven't had time to work on it in such a long time...I will get back to it though. I really loved making this quilt and it was challenging at times and I feel like I grew as a quiltmaker.

So there you have it...one of my first quilts and one of my last. And since this post is about first quilts and my sister was here for a few days this week learning to quilt here are a couple of pictures of her first quilt (there will be 2 first quilts as I wanted to teach her to cut and piece and she had a pattern picked out that was fusible buttonhole applique that just happens to be a Simplify pattern).

 

 

 

Here is a picture of Pamela hard at work.

 

We had so much fun and I hope that she learned a lot and will keep sewing. Just wish we lived closer so we could get together more often....
Well this post is long enough...time to get busy!