Archive for the 'Sane Quilting' Category

I Can’t Believe That I Made Another Dresden Plate Quilt

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

As I said in an earlier post, I do not care for the Dresden Plate quilt pattern.  So how did I happen to make another one over fifty years after I made the first one?  In 1997 my mother-in-law died and left nine quilts unfinished, and since I was the only one in the family that quilts, I [...]

My First Quilt

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

In a previous post I mentioned that I have been sewing and embroidering for over sixty years.  I did my first quilt when I was about fifteen and I cannot believe that the pattern I chose was the Dresden Plate.  These days I do not even like that pattern.  And I made the quilt back [...]