Thought it may be a good opportunity to add a couple from history.

I would probably consider this my first ever quilt. I had been a cross stitcher until the day Ivisited a quilt show at Merriwa with my mother. I had an unfinished hexagon quilt at home but wasn't really inspired.
Until MERRIWA.

A lovely lady, not sure, but I think her name was Elaine was showing a beautiful Nosegay quilt. I admired it and to cut a long story short she posted it into me. I did everything possible wrong. Used furnishing fabric, started hand piecing and had a go at quilt as you go. After a lot of trials and tribulations and a lot of help from my expert machine sewer mum I was hooked and so was she.

So this is the one that started my journey and passion. I think it was about 1991.

The following was started at one of my annual quilting retreats with Maitland Patchwork and Quilters. This was my second year and the tutor was Brigitte Giblin. The same one as the first year where I did the Birds in My Garden Quilt that I have shown in a previous post.

I hadn't done a great deal of quilting and as you can see some of the piecing is a bit rough!

I think (hope) I have come a long way since 1999!