March 13, 2007
I have quilted for 30 years. I'm not fancy or detailed but love the fabrics and colors. I have taken on a new challenge - making quilts for customers. I help people take their items that create memories and make it into a format that they can display or use. Who else out there is doing something like this?
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sewandsew55 (anonymous) says...
I love to sew, but so far, have re-covered my older son's quilt. I also need to do the same to my younger son's quilt, it's tattered,I sewed up the torn parts, so I can re-cover it with Star Wars fabric on both sides, it will be reversible! I am making another quilt for my sister's 50th birthday in September,but would hate to make them and sell them, it's so much time! Currently I am sewing American Girl doll clothes that I hope to sell at a crafts show in May. I'm not sure there are very many women out there making memory quilts, my mom made a photo quilt for my older brother, lotsa time!
March 14, 2007 at 8:07 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
tess1960 (anonymous) says...
I started a quilt by hand when my oldest child (now 31) was born. I finished it when she was 4. It is a crazy quilt and I used her clothes as she outgrew them and some of her baby layette blankets. I used a lightweight blanket that was covered with Ziggy as the backing. (Anyone remember Ziggy?) This created a very heavy quilt. This quilt has gone everywhere with her, including through a terrible time of her life when I had to put her into foster care and she was moved from home to home for a couple years. Not knowing the proper care of handmade quilts at the time I did not teach her how to properly care for it. This quilt has been washed again and again in hot water and bleach. It's traveled all over this great country and she even took it tattereed and torn with her to Walla Walla to meet her future in-laws. In 2004 she brought it to me in tears and asked me to perform surgery on her blankie. It took me a full year by hand but I was able to salvage many of the crazy quilt designs and much of the Ziggy backing. It now has some of her own daughters baby clothing in places and I scanned the Ziggy part that was in the best shape and and stransfered it to a pillow for her. I used a good sheeting material on parts of the backing that could not be salvaged and now the front and back is a crazy quilt design. She loves it and we hope it wll last another 25 plus years. And no more hot water and bleach!!
I made a quilted memory pillow for my mom useing photos of her grandchildren. It was a lot of work and turned out great. For this project I was thankful I now have a sewing machine and no how to use it.
I would love a memory quilt and may have to look into doing that someday, maybe by hand and machine.
August 17, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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