Can you count how many quilts you’ve made? Do you remember them all? Since this project is about telling your quilting story, why not commemorate your quilting accomplishments on your Quilt Story quilt?
Try these fun ideas or think of a special way to acknowledge the number of quilts you’ve made in your quilting journey:
- Add a button to your quilt for every quilt you’ve made. This idea is great for those who haven’t made so many quilts that the entire quilt will be covered in buttons!
- Add a bead to your quilt for every quilt you’ve made. This idea is great for those whose number of quilts numbers in the hundreds.
- Embroider a french knot on your quilt for every quilt you’ve made. This idea makes it very easy to add more knots as you make more quilts.
So how many quilts have you made? Let us know in the comments below.
My Quilt Story Project
Want to catch up on the rest of the project? Here are the details:
Between now and Fall Paducah in September, we invite you on a special creative adventure. Each week we will offer you ideas, techniques, blocks, and embellishments to help you tell your quilt story in stitches.
If you didn’t catch the beginning of the project, visit here for the quilt story worksheet.
Did you remake your first block? You can find some help here.
Have you decided on the monuments representing the moments that changed your quilt story? Here’s a look at how to start.
Are you building your town? See how we built a building.
Have you created a quilting garden? See some sample blocks here.
What quilt construction techniques have you learned along your journey? Take a look at our list.
Want to add some memorabilia? Take a look at our quilt blocks great for showing off your favorite quilting pins.
Do you have special people who filled your quilting heart through the years? Here’s an idea to include them in your quilt.
Do you have special fabric collections you’ve been saving for years and want to include with a special commemorative block? Take a look at our Original Memory Collage Block!
What about those orphan blocks from past projects, inherited blocks that haven’t found a home? Turn your forsaken & forgotten blocks into treasures.
Have you noticed your color selections for your quilts change through the years? Record your color history by creating a block to display your color preferences through your quilting journey.
Add a map block to your quilt story project. Maybe it’s a place that inspires you or holds dear memories of quilting friends.
I have made hundreds in the past 11 years since I started quilting. I take a picture of everything I make and print the pictures and put them in albums. It is nice to look back at them all.
I take pictures of my quilts too .but I did not when I began so I do not know how many I have made
I also take pictures of my quilts and put them in albums with the date made, who it was given to and the size. I’ve a list at the beginning of the albums for a quick glance and I just add new ones to it. So far the count in the last 20+ years is 305, most of which I have given as gifts. Celeste in Japan
Besides printing a picture of the quilt I have made, I try to also have a picture of the person I gave the quilt to. I include a picture of the label so it is known that the quilt had a label with it when it was made. The last thing I add is little snips of the fabrics in the quilt in case the picture doesn’t show the detail of the fabrics. In the future my children/ grandchildren will know the details of the quilts I have made, who they belonged to, when it was made, the name of the quilt pattern, and date made.
Quilting has been on my retirement bucket list for a very long time – or what seemed like a long time. I purchased the material for my first quilt 2 years before retirement because I thought that I could devote the time to quilting after work and on weekends. A neighbor (I will call her Gazette) said that she wanted to teach me how to quilt. She didn’t even know what a rotary cutter was at that time. Long story short, I put the material away for another time.
It was in the winter of 2014 that I took a quilting class, My friend, Gazette just wasn’t a good teacher for me she had her way. She meant well. I certainly was challenged by my monkey mind in class! I managed through it all and finished my first 9 block quilt at home! It turned out OK. I named her “Class”. It was then that I said I want to make another and another…I found a small space in the basement and my husband put up the walls and painted it, the rest came – the cabinets, an old hutch, carpeting..I have it equipped with music and a TV. I also keep some of my plants in there. It is my ‘lady cave’.
I digress.
I have made 11quilts in total since 2014. I have learned to have someone else do the long arm quilting. I became so frustrated while trying to do the actual quilting on a small machine and I was afraid that my frustration would make me toss in the fabric and close the door to the sewing room only to enter it to water my plants.
I haven’t challenged myself enough. I am afraid to venture out of my comfort zone. I’ve stuck to squares and rectangles. They were somewhat easy to sew or piece together. Getting them to nest was a biggie which I learned to do nicely. My challenge for 2018 is to work outside of my comfort zone – try a Churn Dash…drunkards path…something like that. Maybe something even more challenging as the year pushes on.
I have some pictures of the quilts that I’ve made and gave to others. I just didn’t write about each quilt. I will have to do this when I am in between making quilts. Perhaps I should write about the quilts before moving on to another quilting venture.
I am an official fabra-holic (fabric addict)! I thought I’d never be this way. Surprises are around every corner in the quilting world. Besides fabric – I have what seems to be a million quilting magazines and books, I just can’t seem to part with the magazines!! I also found a number of spools of thread in my Grandmother/Aunt’s old Singer sewing machine drawers. The spools are wooden – I guess they date back from the mid 1950’s to the end of the 1980’s. Maybe even before that! I put those in to a ball jar which is sitting on a hutch where I keep the my special things….The office part of the sewing room is stashed with yardage and charm packs, batting…freezer paper (yes freezer paper for my labels). I don’t think I can call it an official office at this point! I have kept all of my receipts for all of the things that I purchased for my quilts including but not limited to the fabric. WOW!! That’s all I can say – WOW!
My story could go on and on…however you all don’t want to read about my story – you have your own story to write!
Happy New Year…wishing you all a fabulous 2018.
Joy Quilter
So I started quilting exactly 2 years ago. Got it bad!!!! Have made 95 quilts. To remember my quilts, I make a 10-1/2” block in the same pattern and fabric. Some are simple – a log cabin block. Others are miniatures of the full quilt. I sew them into a quilt by year. One for 2019 and two for 2020. I have given away about 40 quilts but what do I do with about 40 others that I don’t want for myself?!!!? Help would be appreciated. I’m sure not gonna stop. Heaven forbid! For Christmas 2019, my husband created a quilt log website for me. I log all my quilts with pictures on my website with all kinds of details. Anyone can look because you can’t edit it without a password (MDMCquiltz.com). For 2020 he gave me a big glassed cabinet. It’s already full and I have six more that don’t fit. Ideas?