First Quilting Foray

Hiya to all,

So yesterday I decided I wanted to sew something pretty.  Now I had gotten a couple quilting books out from the library, because I'm interested in sewing patchwork and applique kind of stuff.  Again remember that there are people who take classes to learn how to quilt, and read the books from cover to cover.  Those people aren't me.  I say I'll just figure it out as I go along, with the pattern I'm using vaguely open beside me.  I did learn some important lessons, the main being if I am going to work on a sewing project for 8 hours I should sit on a cushion to avoid a numb butt the next day.  My first result isn't perfect, the edges aren't even, but considering my lack of space and that it is my first time doing this, I think it came out pretty decent.

It is a wall hanging quilt.  As you see I wasn't silly enough to try to make a people sized quilt for my first project, but rather something that can be hung up more as art.  It is called a coin quilt (or something to that effect).  Here is a close up of the squares:

You are supposed to use a bunch of complimentary fabrics for the strips/squares but I decided to go for just 4 different patterns that were a little more contrasting/dramatic, and I like how it turned out.  A couple more patterned strips would have added more variety, but again first project didn't want to fuss and match too much. For the back I used one of the fabrics that makes up squares.

There was no real way to show you, but I went with the tying quilt method so at regular intervals there are embroidery floss knots holding everything in place.
This is what I did, I like it.
Take Care