I had just moved to Minnesota and had a new machine...my beloved Bernina 1230. I had no local friends and was a SAHM with a new baby along with two grade-schoolers. I needed to 'get out'. (This was pre-household internet, quilt blogs, and wonderful blog friends!) So I took a quilting class at our local big box fabric store. The class was based on the Quilt-in-a Day series and you could choose from the Log Cabin (which thankfully I did) or the Lover's Knot.
I had so much fun choosing the fabric to sort of 'match' our family room...browns and greens (which have now faded to blues.) Yep. Calicoes! I used the really thick bonded polyester batting that was so popular at the time. The edges were finished by folding over the backing to the front of the quilt. (I had never heard of proper binding!) I tied the quilt with DMC embroidery floss. It is still the quilt my family members grab for cuddling in front of the TV or wherever.
5 comments:
beautiful~your 1st turned out tons better than mine lol
that was the time period when I owned a quilt shop and those calicoes were all we had for quilting. We thought they were pretty.....with nothing to compare them too. a lot of them did fade to other colors too.
My first quilt was a log cabin quilt. I love log cabins. Yours is wonderful.
Very cozy! My first quilt was a very scrappy log cabin--I made back in 1961
That has held up so much better than mine! I did the foldover binding too, and it all just pulled away and fell to bits :(
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