Q1 - My First Quilt
Well, Here Goes...
This was my first quilt. I joined a Beginners Sampler Class with 3 of my friends from work.
We used the book called "The Sampler Quilt" by Diana Leone for all the patterns.
I first planned it as twin-sized, but then decided to make it king-sized. I kept adding fabric,
and making more squares, until I thought it was big enough. That is why it is so "rosy" in color:
when I got to the lattice, I could only find more of that rose fabric.
(Learned a good lesson.. buy all the fabric you need for the basics at the start!)
I used the thickest batting, thinking it would be better, but that was much too hard to hand quilt through,
so I ended up tying it together with quilters' knots. I am now hand-quilting it,
but it is a slow process with the heavy batting to go through.
Most of it has to be done in the "dive bomb" stitch. Yikes!