My First Quilt, Part 2
Most of my sewing room decluttering attempts involve making scrappy quilts, but the quilt I'm making today has a slightly different story: yardage that was specifically set aside for a project. Two years ago, I was looking for something in my sewing room and came across a bag with some fabric scraps and the pattern for the first quilt I ever made . The feature fabric in that first quilt was elephant-themed and I instantly decided it would be fun to make that quilt again with some current elephant fabric. So I hopped online and placed an order for some elephant and coordinating fabric. But when it came, I was working on another project and it got placed in a bag, labeled, and set aside. Fast forward to now when that fabric finally became a quilt! The timeline for the two quilts is this: June 2011: I made the original quilt (with fabric from Joann's!) June 18, 2024: I ordered the fabric for the updated quilt June 20, 2026: I s...