My First Quilt

I decided to play along with Camille and Carrie and countless others and share my first and most recent quilts. I've decided to do a "compare and contrast" exercise because that makes me feel like I'm in 3rd grade again and that wouldn't too be bad right now. At least I'd be out of school for the summer and running around in my swim suit at Wet 'n Wild.

Compare

* Both are very rectilinear (that's the word of the day). It takes a lot to get me to venture into triangles or something crazier.

* Both were gifts.

* Yeah, that's about it.

Contrast

* My latest actually has color! Well, technically, the first does, too, but those light pink ribbons used to tie it are hard to discern.

* The first is tied because I was a chicken and the latest is machine quilted because I learned to overcome my fears.

* One has a well-made binding, the other is... (I don't want to discuss it)

* T-shirts + interfacing vs. random white cotton fabrics

* ginormous vs. baby quilt

* pieced backing vs. good ole plain white backing

* rotary cut vs. squares drawn with a blue chalk pencil and cut out with scissors (!)

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That'll do for now. I'll be back soon with a wedding quilt I'm working on. I hope to get the top and backing all together and maybe even basted this weekend. The wedding is next weekend! Gotta hurry!