The day arrived when my client and her children pulled up at the door to see their memory quilt for the first time. Jennifer from Century House Quilting did a fantastic job and made my life so much easier. The quilting ended up being a huge challenge because of all the different fabrics and I ended up taking it to a long arm quilter. I figured that I would quilt it in sections and put it together in sections that way I didn’t have to handle a king size quilt under my machine. Quilting this piece proved to be a challenge. As well the rust fabric was used as the corner stones between all the sashing pieces. This would give some the quilt some symmetry and unity. I decided that the blue fabrics would work best for the large rectangle in the middle of each block and the yellow, peach and rust fabrics would be the triangles at the ends of each rectangle. There were several blue coloured golf shirts and three other shirts in various shades of yellow, orange and rust. I set to work getting the fabrics ready – cutting them all was a huge job – far larger than I had anticipated. She assured me that there would be enough as her husband was well over 6 feet tall. There were only 5 or 6 pairs of jeans in the box and I said there isn’t enough there. The only request my client had was that the sashing be with the blue jeans and I thought oh boy that is a lot of sashing as the quilt was to be king size. This pattern ended up being perfect for the fabrics I had to work with. We chose the pattern On the Wild Side from the the book Strips & Strings 16 Sparkling Quilts by Evelyn Sloppy. We also needed a pattern that would look good as a somewhat scrappy quilt seeing how there would be so many different fabrics in it. I felt it would be much easier to create if it was a strip quilt and did not require the cutting of many little pieces seeing how the fabrics were of all different weights and types. We went through some of my books and found a suitable pattern that would work with the clothing. She made the trek up here to my studio from the city with two huge boxes of clothes. Sadly my client had lost her husband in August and she was wanting a quilt for her and her children to remember him by. This custom quilt request was a bit different in that it was to make a quilt from clothing. Hey Everyone, welcome back to Story Time Monday.īack at the end of 2012 I received an e-mail asking if I made custom quilts and of course the answer was yes.
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