re: Make a Quick, Patchwork Quilt Game Board

TEMA61 — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:14:21 GMT

I made my first quilt in 1979. My Mom had been quilting for about a year and I became fascinated. She took me to a fabric store and we picked out some fabrics together... not quilting fabric like we have now, but dress-weight fabrics in brown and red and one off-white with a grid on it.

The pattern came from a book and Mom helped me every step of the way. The pattern was called Lone Star and it was very easy. The points were made up of 2 large triangles pieced together with large squares and blocks in between. I hand quilted it and it seemed to take forever. I thought the quilting would never end; my fingers hurt. I thought - if this is quilting, one is enough - but, of course, by the time I finished the darned thing, I'd already begun to buy fabric for the second quilt.

My son was the lucky recipient of this quilt. He was 4 years old and that night he thanked me by having a bleeding nose 4X's that night.

Loving mother that I am - I left him to bleed into the toilet while I desperately tried to wash out the blood. :)

I still have this quilt... stains and all.

Just so you know... my son was afraid of the dark and I made this quilt because it was called the Star of Bethleham. I told him it was a magic quilt and would protect him from the bad things under the bed. He believed it and spent many a wonderful night's sleep under it... once he got over the nose bleeds, that is...

LOL!

TEMA