Lady Bugs, My Beginning Quilt

I started teaching a beginning Quilt class last weekend. The funny thing is I always said I would never ever teach beginning quilting.  Never say never! Sew Special Quilt Shop had been asking me to teach a beginning class from the first day I went in to talk to them about teaching in the shop.  After teaching a few classes I realized, there was a need for a beginning class!

I havn't made a sampler quilt in a long time, but I really enjoyed it!

My favorite part of making this quilt was quilting it.  At first I was a little overwhelmed, I am not sure I ever machine quilted a sampler quilt. First things first, it was time for a new pair of quilting gloves!  I swear by these gloves and can not imagine machine quilting without them.

Not knowing where to start I decided to start with quilting the red sashing.  As I was quilting the sashing I started to get ideas for the blocks.

 I quilted in all the fabrics except the white background fabric. I felt like quilting the quilt in this way gave me boundaries.  It was so much fun deciding on what to do with each block.

 In all the smaller triangles in the quilt I quilted the same pattern throughout.  In the larger triangles I did another design.


I quilt the squares the same way.  In the smaller squares I quilted the same flower throughout, and a different design in the larger squares.

All in all I love how the quilt turned out.  I taught my first class of a four part series last Saturday! I think this will be a huge learning experience for me and my students.  I truly feel blessed to be able to share my knowledge and joy with my students.

Happy quilting :)