Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Anniversary Quilt
In October 2004 my parents celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. It just happened to coincide with the auction sale of my Great-Great Uncle Hans. So we had a ton of family gathered for the sale. We all went out to the steakhouse the night before so we could catch up. We surprised my parents with a cake and cards. I had everyone sign a 4 1/2" block and I planned to put them into a quilt. In Jan. 2005 I finally got around to making them into a quilt. I used a thread spool pattern and blue and yellow since those were my parents wedding colors. It's about 36x45 wall hanging. I don't recommend doing the mitered corners on every block for one of your first quilts. It was a pain in the rear and I did a terrible job of piecing. I quilted it with hearts that I was going to free motion, but they looked horrible, so I drew them on and used the walking foot to quilt around each heart.
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The wall hanging for your parents looks great Moneik!
It's funny, MY parents had their
25th in NOV of 2004 and I made them a wall hanging with signatures! Our family is spread all across Canada so I did alot of mailing and planning to get it all to work. You can see it here: http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1262145668065073227CyUtLB
If that doesn't work it's "kidscrayons" at webshots in the album just labeled "quilts".
Soo...they'll be having their 30th next year as will mine. Any plans? We had a party for their 25th but I'm not sure if we'll do that again or not.
Nevermind, that was too complicated. I decided to post about it on my blog instead. lol
Mitered corners? IN each block? Crazy! They have patterns for spools using HSTs. That's how we did mine when I took the class at my quilt shop.
i'm impressed that you attempted mitered corners that early in the game! way to go!
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