...and stitching together the loose ends of life. (Updated sporadically. Like whenever I feel like it. Maybe sooner.)
Monday, April 5, 2010
It's a Wrap
I finished the quilt made from my late step-father's shirts last week and gave it to my mother.
Here are some of the shirts along with a green accent fabric and the World War II vintage airplane fabric that I chose for the back.
While I was cutting some of the shirt into strips, Blinky made sure the rest of the shirts didn't go anywhere.
I sewed the strips together and then cut them to make rows of blocks.

Here is the finished top.
I didn't have enough of the airplane fabric for the back, so I went through my stash and came up with this checked fabric.

Finally, here are some pictures of the finished quilt. It doesn't look so good with the daisy dust-ruffle on my guest bed, but it's not there any longer since my mom took it home with her. Also, you've heard of a disclaimer; well here's a "claimer" -- Wavy lines are exactly as they appear. It's not just the photos that make them look that way. I was trying to quilt in straight lines, but this was just too big a project to do without a frame. All the pushing and pulling resulted in way-less-than-straight lines. But overall, it looks OK, Mama was pleased, and I'm not planning on entering the quilt in any competitions anyway.






You did it!!!! And it looks absolutely fantastic, it really does. I'd be very pleased to have such a wonderful quilt especially one filled with so many memories. What a lucky mum you have.
ReplyDeleteVery very tastefully nice. A classic quilt, with a very special meaning behind it. That's really really attractive.
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