My First Quilt

Camille at Simplify and Carrie at La Vie en Rosie have challenged us to show our first and our most recent quilts so I have been having so much fun seeing others I decided to post mine. I'll show you the good first and then the ugly. I just made this quilt recently and I made it as a challenge to myself on placement of color and scale of prints. I love the way the colors are harmonizing. The large prints were a challenge to me as I don't usually use them but I think I got them right and I love this quilt.

Now for the ugly. According to the label on this quilt I made this in 1983. I actually attempted a quilt in the late 70's when I lived in Colorado but I never finished it. So this is #1. I remember getting the fabric at a Ben Franklin store-remember there were no quilt stores back then. At least in rural NH where I lived at the time there weren't any.
I hand quilted it in a tulip design. This shot gives you a good view of the fabrics available at the time. We moved to a more urban area of NH in 1984 and that was my first exposure to a quilt shop. There was a good selection of fabrics there but not like today's fabrics. Thank goodness there are so many fabulous fabrics around now.

I now rarely hand quilt and either I have my local quilt shop handle the machine quilt or I do small projects myself.

So that's it. I had forgotten I still had this. I'm going to wash it up and let my grandson use it for his naps. He seems to like many little blanket and quilts in bed with him for his sleeping. A boy after my own heart.

Update: I want to thank my daughter for calling my first quilt "primitive" in her comment on this post instead of the ugly I called it. Thanks Caryl!