Where it all began...

This is it.  My first quilt.  My grandmother had to help me with it, since the experience I had with sewing beforehand consisted of two Home Ec classes.  We cut the squares with scissors, pieced one at a time with the sewing machine and hand tied it... of those steps, the only thing I still do in my quilting is the piecing.

I made this quilt for my first son, W.  He was a surprise you see and I wanted to make something for him to get me more in the spirit rather than stuck in shock.  The colors were intensely bright and were of fairly good quality fabric but have since become threadbare and faded.  It is 12 years old after all!

So that's where I'll start this blog.  Where it all began...