AUSTIN CARPET STORES

As usual, my helper gets in the act. I had to remove him because I was using a razon-edged rotary cutter, and I didn't want any accidents!

I finished this quilt way back in the mid-80's. I did this way before I knew the finer points of quilting, so this one is quite, um, a mess. The back looks like a shag rug because I didn't clip threads as i finished each block, and the front has about a frillion thread ends, too. Some of the blocks are kind of puffy, because I didn't have each block the exact same size. I spent about an hour today evening up the outer borders as best as i could. I an going to press the heck out of this thing and see what happens to it. I can always just utility quilt it. I love it because it's the first one I did; it has scraps of my maternity clothes in it; and I put this together while my 5th son snoozed in a car seat in my sewing room while I put it together; taking out time to make Halloween costumes for my older children, including a Stegosaurus costume that won several prizes throughout the years!

Double border detail - red inner border, strip-pieced outer border.

I finished this quilt way back in the mid-80's. I did this way before I knew the finer points of quilting, so this one is quite, um, a mess. The back looks like a shag rug because I didn't clip threads as i finished each block, and the front has about a frillion thread ends, too. Some of the blocks are kind of puffy, because I didn't have each block the exact same size. I spent about an hour today evening up the outer borders as best as i could. I an going to press the heck out of this thing and see what happens to it. I can always just utility quilt it. I love it because it's the first one I did; it has scraps of my maternity clothes in it; and I put this together while my 5th son snoozed in a car seat in my sewing room while I put it together; taking out time to make Halloween costumes for my older children, including a Stegosaurus costume that won several prizes throughout the years!