clothing to quilting and back again

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

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larisavann
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Larisa,

I've also been away a lot during the last year. I've been busy doing lots of sewing but except for one quilt for my newest DGD who was born Jan of last year I haven't done any quilting.

I really love to sew as well as quilt as sometimes it's nice to have a finished product in a day or two. I should be saving scraps from the clothing I've been making for the grandkids so I can make them a quilt in a few years. I have made each of the 9 grandkids a quilt but the younger ones might like one from some of their grandma-made clothes.

But what I meant to say was "nice to see you here again"

Judie

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Judie in Penfield NY

I hope you have as much success with using clothing for quilting as I have had thus far with a commission for shirt quilts! So does your friend plan to use the quilts regularly? I can imagine having problems with using a variety of cloths that pull against each other. But you're more experienced than I; I'd love to hear what you think about this issue.

ep

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Edna Pearl

The good thing is that the dresses appear to be all cotton. What has me concerned is the chenille throw, but right now they are all spread out in my workroom so that I can look at them and get some ideas. The big thing is to make them crib size and DIFFERENT so that the girls don't have the exact same pattern. I'm playing around with some ideas, and will probably do some sketching out tonight and tomorrow...will see what I come up with, and chances are the fabric that I need to "pull it all together" is hiding in my quilting stash....which, sadly, is buried under the boxes of inventory for my business...lol

Larisa

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larisavann

How interesting -- with the six children's quilts I'm making, the kids are in grade school or middle school, and the grandmother-client assures me that they will be happiest if their quilts are basically the same -- Wild Goose Chase strips -- with a different color for the sashing, borders, and backing to match their different rooms. Makes perfect sense.

But it also makes perfect sense that when there are just two kids involved, to make them different, different, different. Young folks do like to be different!

Lesson learned :-) Thanks!

ep

"off kilter snipped-for-privacy@somwherequiet.net" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@t17g2000vbk.googlegroups.com... The good thing is that the dresses appear to be all cotton. What has me concerned is the chenille throw, but right now they are all spread out in my workroom so that I can look at them and get some ideas. The big thing is to make them crib size and DIFFERENT so that the girls don't have the exact same pattern. I'm playing around with some ideas, and will probably do some sketching out tonight and tomorrow...will see what I come up with, and chances are the fabric that I need to "pull it all together" is hiding in my quilting stash....which, sadly, is buried under the boxes of inventory for my business...lol

Larisa

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Edna Pearl

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