Saturday, July 11, 2009

My First Quilt

Carrie and Camille are encouraging everyone to show off their first ever quilt, as well as their most recent, so here goes!


I started quilting three years ago, when I saw a few quilts in shops and decided that it couldn't really be that hard. I found a copy of Australian Homespun magazine, picked a pattern, and off I went. I pieced the quilt using my mum's 25 year old Singer sewing machine, did all the applique, then quilted it by hand using a variegated thread. It took me 6 months from start to finish, and I'm still pretty proud of it! Anyone who was familiar with my old blog header will have seen a close up of some of the applique flowers, each of which I stitched around twice... (oh, and that's my mum's head that you can see)

My most recent quilt is "Catch a Falling Star"; its all quilted up (and far too big for me to hold up for a good photo), but not bound yet, though I found the perfect fabric for it today; a brown tonal from the new Glace range. Almost done!

7 comments:

Barb said...

I love both quilts....

Carrie said...

Hi Kate ~ I love them both... and Catch a Falling Star looks familiar. :)

I love your first quilt, all the applique and the hand-quilting! It's wonderful and I'm glad you're proud of it! I'm looking forward to seeing Falling Star when it's bound ~ it really is beautiful.

Thank you for joining in and sharing your quilts!

Camille said...

WOW! Oh, Wow!! I love that catch a falling star quilt so much!

Heather said...

Catch a falling star is so beautiful! I love it! Your first quilt is great, you appliqued it?!

dotti white said...

I love both of your quilts but the catch a falling star really shines bright! Beautiful!

Katie B said...

Beautiful quilts. Your first one was so ambitious!

MamaT said...

Love your quilts! You are very talented. Keep up the good work, it's such good therapy.