Ping Jeanne, Worst Quilts

You know, thinking about it, I'd bet she was making a biscuit quilt......

--pig

here are a couple but by no means all the links out there.

seems 'ugly quilts' are something also made for homeless people around the country.

"Polly Esther" wrote... Just when you have time, would you please use your wonderful search skills and see if you can find for our newer quilters that incredible Worst Quilts competition? I guess it was nearly 10 years ago. The incompetence and problem solving was such a belly laugh. My personal favorite was the one bound with duct tape. Not in the contest was the quilter discovered by our Kate T. She witnessed a lady in WalMart buying out all their cotton balls usually used for makeup and first aid to make a quilt batting. We don't know how that turned out. Polly

ugly quilts obviously aint what they used to be. none of those looked particularly ugly to me. there is another site of them from a few yrs back that were pretty damn ugly tho. havent found that site yet. seems odd to me to call quilts for the homeless ugly. j.

"J*" wrote... here are a couple but by no means all the links out there.

seems 'ugly quilts' are something also made for homeless people around the country.

"Polly Esther" wrote... Just when you have time, would you please use your wonderful search skills and see if you can find for our newer quilters that incredible Worst Quilts competition? I guess it was nearly 10 years ago. The incompetence and problem solving was such a belly laugh. My personal favorite was the one bound with duct tape. Not in the contest was the quilter discovered by our Kate T. She witnessed a lady in WalMart buying out all their cotton balls usually used for makeup and first aid to make a quilt batting. We don't know how that turned out. Polly

thats the one, ta, jenn. j.

"Jennifer in Ottawa" wrote...

Too funny! Unfortunately, some of the them look better than the second quilt I ever made, from the "Just Can't Cut It" pattern. I should have entered it and named it "Just Can't Sew It, Either." I truly wish I had a picture of it. Some projects really *should* remain UFO's.

Sherry

Thank you all. I've laughed myself silly. And - the reason quilts for homeless are ugly - I think that was answered by our Kathy A. (Maybe someone else but I think it was Kathy). Quilts that are at all attractive will be stolen and sold. If you're just learning to MQ and simply serge the edges instead of binding them, you'll be keeping someone warm. The quilt will probably be left for the next person. I think that's something the longarmers do when they're making friends with their new machines. Anyhow. I enjoyed seeing the disasters. Made a few of my own. Polly

"J*" seems odd to me to call quilts for the homeless ugly.

I can't decide which is my favorite - I can't take my eyes off of 'Feedsacks gone Bad' either and just LOL at Quiltergeist. So glad these beauties didn't slip through the cracks before our new quilters get to see them. Polly

YOWSERS! lol Thank you for this thread..I'm not sure which one is my favorite...! Donna

I agree, Roberta. Some of them must have not been accidents but aren't they fun? Polly

"Roberta"

This is why I design and DW quilts. Were we to switch, I have no doubts we'd sweep the "Uglies" awards...

Doc

I think so too; the honest efforts (with the quilter's ability to laugh at it too!) are the funny ones. It would be interesting to see "first quilts" too. Do you still have yours? I gave mine away, I was pretty pleased with myself at the time, but I wonder what Id think if I saw it now. Didn't even keep a picture. It was a mix of all the patriotic, red/white/blue fabric I could find at Walmart.

Sherry

I agree, but no one asked me at the time. ;) I do still have my first quilt -- even my first block, which I made into a tote bag. That first quilt is still one of my favorites -- not because of any great expertise exhibited in making it, but because it *was* my first. It's still the one I use when I need to curl up on a sofa with kleenex when I'm not feeling great.

I'm with you Roberta! The first year was fun because it was just people who entering old quilts of theirs that had turned out poorly. After that people made new things poorly on purpose.

Ami Simms book (which inspired her contest) was very funny.

marcella

Hi Jeane,

I didn't think that any of those quilts looked particularly ugly either.

Best regards, Michelle > ugly quilts obviously aint what they used to be.

Ugly is the eye of the beholder? :-) My ugly quilt was ugly because I didn't know how to choose fabrics yet. Oy. It really was awful. The workmanship wasn't all that bad.

Sherry

My very 1st quilt was back in the 70's, made with scraps from kids' clothes. Remember the 70's? (Maybe you weren't even born then!) It was the Age of Polyester :-p I had never even heard of a shop specializing in patchwork fabric, and the only batting anybody used was that nasty poly stuff meant for padding upholstery. Or if we were lucky, something pre-quilted onto rayon acetate and meant for lining coats. (Bear in mind that I live in Europe, where patchwork and quilting as we know it are relatively new ideas.)

So my first effort, based >>> Something about that contest always bothered me. People who knew how