This is a picture of my first quilt that was quilted by machine. This quilt is called Fall Log Cabin. This quilt was pieced in November 1997 during one of our group’s Pre-Christmas Quilt Weekends.

This top sat for years – until 1999 – in an un-quilted state until I took some machine quilting lessons and tackled the quilting.

This quilt was also entered in our Fall Fair that year and won first place in the Medium Patchwork category.

I see a lot of quilters on-line talking about their first quilt. That made me go back and see if I could find a picture of my first quilt. Here it is…………………Crazy About Chickens.

I put the last stitches in this quilt on September 17, 1999, the day before the deadline for entries to our local Fall Fair that year. I won first place in the “Beginner’s First Major Quilt” category. The top was crazy pieced on a muslin foundation. I tied the blocks and machine quilted the border.

I used my Grandmother’s Singer treadle sewing machine to piece the blocks for this quilt. I have many fond memories of my Grandmother sewing on this machine. As a child I was allowed to play with all the fabric scraps left from the many clothing projects she made. The only fabrics in her stash that were off limit were the large “whole” pieces that hadn’t been cut into yet.

We still use this quilt on our bed. It is one of the quilts that keeps us warm in the winter. It is no longer visible as a much prettier quilt now lives on top of it.