With the cleaning and organizing that comes with a new year, I unearthed my very first quilt. I started it before we moved to Florida which was in 1998. I did not have a sewing machine or a rotary cutter at that time. I had a pattern book from the library book sale that had sampler blocks labelled with 1 through 3 thimbles to represent difficulty level. As I look back at how I started, I am pretty proud of how far I have come. The seams are not straight and do not lie flat. They are loose and show on the front in some places. I chose puffy polyester batting that made quilting difficult which is how it ended up as a UFO. I did some straight link walking foot quilting in the borders and sashing to help everything stay together and now I will throw on some binding so that I can take it to the cabin and add some hand quilting to the blocks.
Today I chose the laundry room to organize. It has become a dumping ground for everything that is homeless. A lot of it just needed to go away, but there is a stack for the cabin and several things that are back where they belong.
It is certainly more functional now. Hopefully it will stay clear for at least a little while. I will add some cabinet organization to THE LIST which has now gone digital after my little bucket of paper slips fell onto the floor while I was quilting my UFO. The list keeps getting longer as each project reveals a deeper layer of chaos.
What a great first project! It is good to see how our quilting has evolved over the years. Good for you to finish it!
ReplyDeleteYou are on a tear with your decluttering and organizing! I don't know how you find time with school in session, but you are making great progress, inspiring all of us. Now, if I could just make myself get up . . . .
ReplyDeleteI look back at my first project and flinch. The color scheme is pretty 70's but my only source of fabric was Hobby Lobby at the time. Good luck finishes up your first, it definitely deserves to be finished. Way to go on the organization. I need to do more of that, but I'm waiting till the kid heads back to college.
ReplyDeleteLooks great, Angela. ALMOST makes me want to do some laundry! Lol!
ReplyDeleteI think your first quilt is a sweet one! Good for you for deciding to finish it for the cabin. I bet it will get a lot of use there!
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