My First Completed Quilt

Some of you know that I had taken up quilting as a mini-hobby a couple years ago, so I thought I would post a picture of the quilt that I finished first. This quilt uses patterns that were commonly used in the 1920's and '30's. I pieced together 13 different 12 inch squares and then added 12 more squares with the same pattern to put in between the different ones. I added borders and corner squares using fabrics already in the quilt. I stippled the whole thing, since that was the easiest for me (as opposed to quilting in specific patterns or doing a "stitch in the ditch"). Without my mom knowing it, I was making this for her. She asked me about it all the time while I was working on it, and I certainly enjoyed keeping it a secret from her that it was for her. I sent it to her last year for her birthday/mother's day gift. (Her birthday is approx. 1 week before Mother's Day.) I had to stay up pretty late into the night after the kids were in bed in order to sew.
I actually haven't done any more sewing or quilting since Alina was born in August, because I am just too tired to stay up any later than the kids. When I start getting more sleep at night, then I will stay up late to work on another quilt that I was working on before she was born. That one is a Civil War Underground Railroad quilt using darker fabrics more typical of that era, and the squares are patterns that were used as codes for the underground railroad.