My REAL first quilt

I was searching through my Barbie Doll items from when I was a girl.  I wanted to give my almost 9 year old some of my furniture and clothes I had been saving.  What I found in the plastic bins was more than I had bargained for.  I had forgotten that my REAL first quilt was in with the Barbie stuff. I hadn't opened that container in atleast 5 years. Here it is. Yep, beautiful eh?

There are squares, rectangles and the sort. This   WAY   pre-rotary cutters and mats.  I used any scraps my mom would allow.  In fact, most of the fabrics were from pajama flannels she used for our pajamas! and there is a pink dotted swiss that I made my first skirt of.  It is a walk down memory lane.

 

Here's the back....more flannel. There is a part that is coming un-sewn...I might leave it that way because you can see that instead of batting I used fabric scraps to stuff it.

I made this 'bedding' set for my Barbie's too. It's reversible... Made of scrap flannel - Mom's scraps again.

This was made out of extra fabric from pre-printed pillow fabric. Ah can you see the quilter in me already???

And my first hand stitched doll pillow.

I found some other interesting Barbie style items that I'll share with you another day.

For now, I hope you enjoyed seeing where I came from in my sewing abilities in the last 24 years!

p.s. today is my Mom's Birthday! Happy Birthday!!! I sent her Pandora...what gal doesn't love Pandora??