Hi all! I haven't been reading as much as I have in the past, mainly due to the need/desire for more updated clothing for myself, and special requests from my kiddos.
The cool thing is that I'm heading back into quilting....using clothing....lol!! A friend of mine requested that, if I had the time, she would like me to make 2 crib-size quilte, not exactly the same, from a chenille throw, and clothing from her great-aunt. Sure!!
She even gathered together dresses that coordinate very nicely with each other, and really only need a solid for sashing to pull everything together. COOL!!! And the ones she picked all have purple in them - the chenille throw has purple, pink, and white. She had thought about having chenille squares on the quilt top, but after talking, she thought that it would be nice to have the back of the quilt as the chenille.
Some of these dresses...wow...she told me her great aunt kept clothing from the 1920s up until her death....my love of vintage clothing is going to be at war with my need to create something new, but...wow....so up to the challenge!!
Maybe this will get me motivated to get back to work on the Ariel quilt for a friend's daughter to be followed by a superhero quilt for her oldest son....lol
Larisa, drowning in stash, but most of it is for clothing right now...no new quilts in over a year....gotta relearn everything...lol