With the fourth of July coming up I thought it would be fun to do a patriotic giveaway.
Here is what you are trying to win:
A pattern for the Liberty Quilt, finished size is 41″ by 58 1/2″.
3 red, white, and blue fat quarters
All you have to do to enter is answer this question:
How did you get into quilting/sewing?
Be sure to answer the question before midnight, on June 13th.
As always, for an extra entry, like us on Facebook and leave a separate comment!
GIVEAWAY: June Free-day the 13th
A dear friend at my church started a small quilt group. Having tried most other crafts and sewing clothing I decided to give it a try. Haven’t looked back and that was a very long time ago.
I was invited to a Saturday Sampler class. I didn’t think I would be that interested. 🙂
My mother was a sewer and I would sit on a stool by her side and watch her sew for hours on the Pfaff sewing machine she purchased with the tax refund money that came because my brother was helpful and arrived on earth on 12/29.
Her mother was a prolific hand quilter including 27 double wedding ring quilts for each grandchild. I was exposed to both sewing and quilting from birth and that was almost 60 years ago!
My grandmother sewed most of my clothes when I was a child and hand quilted beautiful quilts! I loved watching her do magic with fabric and thread. I treasure the quilts that she made. I miss her but her legacy lives on with her quilts.
My bff taught me how a few years ago and I fell in love with the craft.
I am self taught and do not know anyone that quilts, although my daughter made one when she was 12. None of my friends sew at all!! Never took a class, but since the internet, I am enjoying the online community. I have just loved quilts from the first time I saw one. I told myself I would make one someday, and my first one was made in 1976. Love to make quilts!! Thanks for the contest.
I follow on FB. Thanks again for the chance to win.
I use to tole paint, but lots of my friends quilted, when I saw some of their projects were faster to do than painted, I switched. I haven’t painted since and it’s been 12 years.
I got into quilting because I found a pattern for (what I now know is) a sampler quilt with over sized blocks and solid colors. This was back in 1978 and the size, colors and simplicity of the quilt would fit right into the modern quilting.
My sister made a log cabin quilt when she was engaged. I thought I would try one too (I was 16) and made a Virginia Reel quilt, which stayed on my bed all throughout college. I was hooked!
Its been on my bucket list for a few years and I just decided that I was going to do it. So in May I signed up for the new Saturday Sampler and have made 2 quilts and am starting another one, all while waiting for the class to start. I am so excited to learn something new, my neighbors think I am crazy for it.
Go to American Quilting and look at new projects and know that I can’t start another till I finish one.
I started sewing in 4-H. As a very young girl. but i really started making all my clothes in middle school. My mother would buy all the fabric that I needed. but she did not buy many clothes. I continued to take sewing classes so that i could make more clothes. eventually I went to college to become a sewing teacher.
A good friend wanted to make a wall hanging and asked if i wanted to learn along the way. I had so much fun just being with my friend and learning from her. Quilting is about more than just sewing, i think it is a social activity!
My sister-in-law’s best friend gave her a beautiful pieced quilt for her baby shower, I remember it was red and white. I decided then that I wanted to learn, but it was at least another year before I dove in, about 4 years ago. I had just moved into our home and my neighbor invited me to a neighborhood quilting party. We went fabric shopping together and she helped me pick out some fabrics to get started. I’ve been hooked ever since!
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First I raised a family and sewed and made them clothes and tied quilts then my life changed and I needed comfort so I watched Alex Anderson when she first started her tv series and now I’m hooked!
I had a son getting married and since my mother and grandmother both quilted and made me several quilts for my wedding, I wanted to carry on the tradition and make my son and his new bride a quilt. I found a fairly easy pattern (snowballs) and started buying fat quarters in their two favorite colors–blue and purple. I loved the way it turned out and so did they! I was hooked!
I started sewing as a child but the first quilt I ever made was from the Little Quilts book and it had appliquéd stars. I particularly loved doing the handwork. I was hooked!
I have always been interested in “crafting”. From little one I went from one thing to another. Making potholders with tubes on a loom, making snakes of thread on a spool with nails pounded into it, sewing my own clothes, macrame’,cross stitch, embroidery. You name it, I tried it. Then I made my daughter a robe of many colors or many squares of colors and I was hooked. From there I tried a quilt and have been doing it ever since. 40 years now. My how time flies when you are having fun.
Quilting’s in the blood. As a little girl, I’d watch my grandmother quilt with her sisters, then I’d watch my mother and then I started. Same answer with sewing in general. I love it. I ‘liked’ you on Facebook.
Oh I love that pattern! I’ve been wanting to get a flag pattern and I love the scrapiness of this one! About three years ago my best friend and her mom decided to take a quilting class for beginners. They had so much fun they convinced me to give it a try. Although my friend stopped quilting several months later, I’ve continued, learning on my own. I’m completely addicted, and especially love applique. Thanks for the chance to win your generous giveaway!
I learned to sew as a small child with a needle and thread. My sister and I made little doll clothes, mostly skirts and blankets. On vacations to Tennessee we would use our hands to peddle our grandmother’s treadle machine while she sewed. I made my first quilt at 20 for our new baby boy and then continued little by little increasing my quilting skills. When the rotary cutting system finally come on the scene, I really began quilting in earnest. The precision of rotary and ruler, versus scissors was a life changing experience.
I began sewing when I was 10 – clothes for my Barbie doll. I didn’t start quilting until about 10 years ago. Thanks for the opportunity to enter your wonderful giveaway.
My grandmother was a beautiful quilter and I guess she was my inspiration. I never really got into quilting until after her death but think of her often when I am quilting. I continue to make and give away quilts for friends and family, along with comfort quilts to the sick and grieving as much for my soul as for theirs…probably more for mine. Thank you for your giveaway.
I started quilting before my first son was born (in 1977). My first quilt was a Trip Around the World which I tied with yarn. When my son was about 2 years old I took my first quilting class where I learned to hand piece and quilt. Over the years, I’ve made many quilts, mostly small, decorative quilts as well as a baby quilt for each of my five grandchildren. Thanks for entering my name in the give away.
When I was in high school, my mom wanted new curtains for our living room, but she didn’t want to pay much for them & didn’t know how to sew her own. She saw an opportunity for me to use this as a Laurel project. I would learn how to sew, she would get new curtains (& a room makeover) and I would be one step closer to my Young Women’s Medallion. The curtains turned out great, even though I had no idea what I was doing. I made me realize the potential I had to create beautiful and practical things.
I grew up playing with dolls & toys under large quilts that my mom and 2 of our neighbors would tie. I loved watching the needles going up and down. They always took turns making several quilts and then would get together and help each other finish them in our big basement. My mom sewed dolls and clothing and aprons and small blankets and always wanted me to learn. I always seemed to be too busy. About 6 years ago a friend asked me if I wanted to take a beginning sewing class with her at American Quilting. I said yes, and I haven’t stopped sewing since. It was like coming home. I just never knew what I was missing all those years. I’m so glad I found American Quilting.
I saw a quilt in a magazine that I fell in love with in 1992. I took a class and fell in love with the whole process. After that, I paid more attention to the quilts my grandmother had made. They are treasures.
My Grandmother and Mother have passed it on to me. They were always making a quilt for the next baby, graduation, or marriage in the family. I’ve just started making quilts the last few years to help carry on the family tradition.
A friend who I worked with at the Provo Humanitarian Room told me about your Saturday Sampler class. It was May of 2011 so it was during the sign up time for the Halloween quilt. I signed up and have really enjoyed doing this quilt (with lot’s of help from my mother!). I enjoyed it so much that I signed up for this year’s Saturday Sampler as well.
I grew up watching my Mom sew clothing for my two sisters and myself– as well as special outfits for all of my baby dolls and Barbies… so an interest in sewing was instilled at an early age! 🙂
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A dear sweet friend! I’m a newbie, but love the craft.
I had a roommate in college that started me on embroidery. I had learned to sew when I was younger, but all of a sudden in college, things just came alive and I was hooked!
Now I just love to create things for my home, friends and family! Thanks for your help in making this possible!
I already “liked” American Quilting on Facebook a while back, but just left a comment as well.
My freshman year of college I kept running across pictures of beautiful quilts online, in magazines, etc. and fell in love with the idea of having something lovely to wrap up in! So I decided to spend my summer learning how to make one– and then I did!
I remember playing under many quilts as my mother and her friends quilted. I have always enjoyed sewing and enjoy learning all of the quilting techniques. Thank you for offering wonderful classes and learning experiences.
My Grandmother was a quilter. She died when I was in college. Soon after I also lost my mother. I have made quilts since I was a teenager. Quilting is the “blanket of warmth” that I have in my life to wrap myself up in good memories of my past, gets me through troubles of my day, and helps me leave something of myself to my children and grandchildren.
Simply Quilts got me hooked. I watched an episode with AmiSims and all her novelty fabrics for I Spy quilts. Kept watching the show, DH bought me a new computerised machine. New machine made it easier to sew with my fibromyalgia. All this 15 years ago and I have not stopped quilting and stashing.
Sorry I like you but closed my FB pages.
I started sewing in junior high and was amazed with what a person could create with a piece of fabric. In college, quilting was introduced to me and I haven’t stopped since. It’s a craft that you never stop learning….It is so much fun:)
My dear friend and I started together years ago. Quilting was always something we wanted to do and we’ve made many beautiful quilts since then, through surgeries and troublesome kids. I love the peace and satisfaction the whole process brings into my life. Thank you.
Yes, I’ve liked you on facebook.
It was a combination of friends, delicious fabric and the desire to try something new. I would see all this gorgeous fabric and wish I could do something with it. Finally I bought a pattern for a small throw and some fat quarters. My friend used the pattern first and told me I could do it, so I did. I’ve been quilting ever since.
I have a LOT of friends having babies this year, and I thought it would be more meaningful to make them a quilt! Plus they last longer than the receiving blankets. I’m addicted now, and I love your fabric selection!
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I spent 46 years of my life avoiding anything that involved a needle and thread – when my now 22 year old son was a young scout, he came home from a den meeting and announced “Mom – did you know if a button falls off your shirt you don’t have to give it to DI? You can sew it back on.” A little over a year ago I saw an applique quilt one of my neighbors had made – I fell in love and begged her to show me how to make it. She agreed to hold a class …….it was soooooooo scary – I hadn’t sewed anything since 7th grade pillowcases. I worked diligently each month and at the end of the year I had 12 finished blocks. Now what? I was forced to buy a sewing machine to put my blocks together. 🙂 I am still learning and don’t yet dare call myself a quilter. But I am now amazed by my love of a needle and thread.
Years ago I read a book called “Plain and Simple” and fell in love with quilts, especially Amish quilts. When my boys were born I tried my hand at making a quilt for each of them without any instruction but the pattern. I was never really happy with them so I put the craft aside to make curtains for our home. A few years ago I wanted a “real” quilt for my first granddaughter and my twin sister had taken some quilting classes and helped me complete one. I have just finished my third baby quilt. Someday that Amish quilt just might get made! 🙂
My mother was VERY patient and taught me to read a pattern and sew basic clothes. I expanded my knowledge when I started having children. My sister in law invited me to my first smocking class, then I was hooked on heirloom sewing. When my daughter turned 8 and had to be bribed to wear an heirloom dress I knew it was time to find a new hobby. Another sister in law invited me to join her at American Quilting’s Saturday sampler in 2009. I had never sewn anything but children’s clothing. I now work there. That is how much I love quilting.
I got into quilting and sewing because I fell madly in love with all of the wonderful 30’s fabric and loved to hear my grandmother tell me about the things that her and her mother had made and I wanted to give it a try. I started hand piecing a Grandmothers Flower Garden quilt about 6 months ago, and over the last month I have learned how to use a sewing machine and just finished my first quilt top last night! I am totally hooked now!
My mom was really the influence that got me quilting. I watched her sew and quilt for so many years, that when I was in Jr. High, I started asking about it and she got me enrolled in some sewing classes. Shortly after I was taking quilting classes at Gentler Times in Holladay. I’m so thankful for my mom’s influence and example as quilting helps keep me sane and is the best form of therapy for me.