This is a true event that happened to me about two years ago. Some ofyou here may remember this story from my original post, but I thoughtI'd repost it for all the new readers here who haven't seen it before.It is as educational as it is funny. I've got a friend who decided to make a cross stitched baby quilt andshe only had a month to do it all. She has never read a quiltingbook, or watched anyone else make a quilt, so she was a littleclueless about quilting. But she is the type to jump into a projectwith both feet and try her heart out. She made 9 blocks, cross stitched with Winnie the Pooh and friends.She did the stitching on muslin about the size of men's handkerchiefsusing waste canvas and they were very nice. She stitched every sparemoment she could, including at an out of state business course, andstill had to stitch through one night instead of sleeping just so shewould have one day to get the other supplies she needed for the quilt,and one night to put it all together. Her plan was to set the nineblocks with sashing in a straight setting. Simple enough that whenshe was telling me about it I thought she knew what she was doing. After a frantic trip to find some Pooh fabric for the backing andsashing strips she was all set to start. She cut the sashing stripsand for some unknown reason she made tubes out of the first strip ofsashing. Even her DH knew something was terribly wrong with her plan,but she shhhed him and continued making her sashing tubes. She turnedthe tubes right side out and called me to ask for my iron because shedoesn't own one. She came to my place to do the ironing. While I did some handquilting, she ironed all the blocks then started ironing her sashing.This is when I looked up and saw the tubes. I asked her why she madetubes while trying hard not to laugh. She replied that it was part ofher plan. I didn't want to upset her too much, so I quietly asked herhow she planned to attach her sashing to the blocks. She said it...

Golly, Debra. That has to be the worst quilting story ever . . . except out Kate T on the other side of Mississippi tells one. She saw a woman stacking every bag of cotton balls in the make-up section of WalMart into her buggy. You know, the kind you use for removing nail polish or applying this or that. Later, the same woman was over in the pharmacy section, again stacking every sack of cotton balls they had into her buggy. She told Kate she needed them all to make a batting for her first quilt. We wonder how that turned out. Polly

How Not to Make a Quilt

Nov 25, 2007 22 Replies

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Rita 18 years ago

I owe a lot to her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Rita 18 years ago

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sandy 18 years ago

As do I! I'd never have begun quilting without her, since I thought you just *had* to have a big frame and do it all by hand.

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