This year marks my 30 anniversary of graduating from high school. Not only that does make me want to freak out on many levels (Where did the time go?! How can I possibly lose so much weight in 3 months??), but it also puts me in a contemplative mood. Ironically, I now live once again in the same neighborhood as my alma mater, so I find myself thinking a lot about the past.
I started this blog as a journal of quilting; to mark my accomplishments and note what works and what doesn't work in the creation of my quilts. Naturally, it should include my past, and my first quilting attempt.
When I was in high school, I had a job at Payless Drugs. I started as a checker, but eventually made my way to work primarily in the fabric department. Aside from cutting and straightening and pulling old patterns, I also got to make samples for display. One such sample was a crib quilt from a magazine article. I'm not sure why I chose browns, because that has never been one of my favorite colors, but I did. I also improvised the ruffled binding. It was such a hit that one of my co-workers commissioned a queen-sized quilt in the same color scheme. I believe she paid me $100 for it. And that was the last quilt I'd do until 1997, when the impending birth of my daughter prompted me to take a quilt class. Just how long it took me to complete that baby quilt is a story for another day...
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