My First Pieced Quilt

This pattern was called Bear’s Paw and I was upset that I didn’t have enough fabric to create all the pieced squares the same. I certainly wasn’t into the scrappy look in those days. Focused on symmetry and everything being as the others. So this was a jumping off point of allowing things to be different. A long way from what I do today but still the learning is there. The Bears Paws are stitch in the ditch quilted and the dark green alternate squares are hand quilted. I still seem to be working in fairly “masculine” colours here.

The very first square was completed in a class and we had been told to bring fabric in teal colours. All the completed squares were put up on a board to show how a colour palette blended the different squares together. I still wanted my finished one to be all the same but it was a learning curve for me. Maybe not having enough of the pattered fabric to do the middle square was synchronicity.