Wow! It Is Blue Bonnet Sue

I love patchwork quilts. We used to make them with my mum when we were very young. With a big family to rear, time were hard and we couldn't afford shop bought quilts so our next door neighbour used to bring home all the scraps of material from the factory where he worked and gave them to my mum to sew toghether to make the quilts. She cut up the pieces into squares and we all helped to sew them together. They were were really nice and colourful and brightened up our bedrooms. I would love to have one of those quilts now.

I do not quilt, but had lots of relatives that did. I have a quilt top from my mom, and have even found the perfect fabric to back it.It will probably be my first attempt, sometime. I would like to know, what is the difference between Blue Bonnet Sue and Sun Bonnet Sue?

I don't know how to do it but my mother and my grandmother does. Momma made baby blankets for me and my little sister and had everyone at our baby showers to sign it. So that has always been sort of neat. Years later she took both of our baby blankets and added more and made a quilt from it.

Wow Anne, you brought back some memories for me! There is a 10 year difference between my oldest son and youngest son and there are two children in between. I always saved clothes from each child as hand=me-downs. Long story short, with 6 people in the house, there was a lot of worn out jeans! About a year and a half before the oldest was to leave for college, I started making a jean quilt for him. I had never done any quilting in my life and had only sewn for a few years..and just very basic things (sun dresses for my daughter etc). I cut a 5 X 5 square template and started cutting those jeans apart! I used the pocket areas, the zipper areas, legs, every single part! Now, I didn't hand quilt the squares, I sewed them together on the machine. When I got it to twin bed size, I put a fleece blanket behind it and then a navy blue sheet behind that! I did a little machine stitch here and there and foled over the edges and did them on the machine! He loved that quilt. It is sooooo heavy and warm. He told me that all the guys in the dorm raved about it! He kept it for me after graduating and just last year gave it to me on a visit and said, "here, it is cleaned and ready for my brother to use!" His youngest brother will leave for college next year and it will easily go through his 4 years. The quilt is indestrutable! There were jeans in that quilt from each child, myself, his dad...it was great! You could even put things in the pockets the way that I did the quilt! I plan on making one for my daughter this summer (she leaves for college in August of this year) ..but hers is going to be from all of her T-shirts. She has a T-shirt from each year that she went to All-State and All-district band, each play that she was in, from Governor's school and many more!

Me and my family have more quilts than we know what to do with. My Grandmother quited till she couldn't see and even then she cut out pieces. When she passed there were boxes and boxes of pieces. My aunt took all of them and made almost 50 quilts out of them. My Grandmother hand sewed and tied her quilts. My aunt machine sews and ties her. My Mom has quilts she made as a teenager. My sister still makes quilts. I never had the patience for it, but I love them.

I used to quilt a lot, nothing fancy, just squares and triangle but I turned out some pretty ones and the people I gave them to loved them if for no reason but the fact I had put so much work into them. I also have a quilt my grandmother gave me it also isn't fancy but I love it because she made it. My ex-mother-in-law was actually who taught me to quilt and she has made some of the most beautiful quilts in the world - she's even sold some for over $1000. A lady I go to church with quilts and she makes her own designs and they are also lovely, so detailed and unique. She did one resently that is birds - each square is about a foot in diameter and every other one has a different bird colors and all quilted right into the pattern, not embrodard or anything, the pieces are in the quilt.

I used to knit , sew and crochet , but I have never quilted , I often thought of it but sadly never got round to it , I bought one over the Internet lately , It is just beautiful , It was commercially made though not hand made but it looks gorgeous on my bed , well done you , xx

A friend of mine is a quilter. I am amazed at the quilts she has done. She not only makes quilts for the bed, but also does wall hangings. I personally do not have the patience for such projects.

Yes we have quilted and want to do so again. We have a full 55 gallon barrel of blue jean material and we would take old blankets and recycle them we also used bandanna's and made bandanna quilts. We have not done it for a few years but want to get back to it. We made a quilt for each of our kids and they still have them.

I have just started my first real quilt. I have made the ones that are knotted in the past but have never tried to actually hand quilt one. The one that I am doing is done one block at a time and is called a "scrap quilt". My neighbor Nancy is going to class to learn how to do this and is sharing her lessons with me when she comes home. Neither of us have any idea how to join the blocks together once they are completed. I am doing my blocks in a traditional 9-square. I can't wait to get it finished, but figure it will take quite awhile. It is far from perfect as I have used both high and low loft batting in some of the squares and find that I really love the high loft. The backing is made up of several large pieces of material that I picked up at the Goodwill. ~Donna

I love to make qiults and all my quilts are hand quilted ...I feel that is the way to add all the love ...lol the picture is of the last one I have finsihed ... My story for you is I made a quilt for my Brother to take over to Moldvia where he is on a missionary trip for two years . He choose to whom the quilt was to go to .....He finally decided to give my quilt to a couple he had met over there that had both grown up in an orphanage together and had just been married ...it was a wedding gift as well as a friendship gift ...needless to say I was very honored by that... what better place for my quilt to be ... very special to me ...I hope everyone will feel the same ... :D

I would love to learn to quilt! I am pretty crafty by nature lol (I crochet and bead among other things) - any suggestions for the new and beginning quilter? Should I take a course? Can I teach myself? Thanks in advance :-) (I do have an antique quilt that an aunt gave me which is blue and white and beautiful!)

I would love to learn to quilt! I am pretty crafty by nature lol (I crochet and bead among other things) - any suggestions for the new and beginning quilter? Should I take a course? Can I teach myself? Thanks in advance :-) (I do have an antique quilt that an aunt gave me which is blue and white and beautiful!)

I like making patchwork items out of denim too, I've made a quilt and a poncho so far, I've never tried making a tied quilt that must be interesting. I've just sewn denim using a sewing machine.

I love SunBonnet Sue!! I don't think I could ever make one, however. I just don't have the patience for all that applique. :) As far as your question--are homemade quilts warmer?? My answer is yes. But, I think it's because it's sewn with love and love warms the heart. If the heart is warm then so are the toes. LOL!!!