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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

...a king sized memory quilt...

...that little square of cloth from my wedding gown got me thinking about doing a memory quilt of sorts for the new bed...

...so I rummaged around in my bin of cloth...and found lots of memories...

...a baby blue crib sheet...a couple of pairs of legs cut off from Scout's trousers...navy blue toddler ones...khaki from about age 4 or 5...and some zip off ones from N.D.

...interesting...

...the cleric the Man wore for his ordination...the brown cushion cover from the bench by the doorway in N.D. (for taking off your snow boots)...but it was Jack's favorite place to sit as he could see out the window from there...some pieces of khaki from a slipcover I made to cover the green wing back chairs...the cream coloured dress I wore for our renewal of vows ceremony...and another cream/off-white piece from my Princess Leia costume...and a shiny black from Scout's Darth Vader...

...lots of memories to be sure...

...and there were a couple of yards of a robin's egg blue colour...sort of like the kitchen...and a darker grey...that I don't even remember what they were for...maybe just leftovers from N.D. quilting...

...so then I hopped on the computer and just using Paint...drew up a plan...gotta have a plan right?...

...printed it out...

...cut and laid out the pieces...90 of them...

...most of the cream coloured squares are from the curtains that were in the bedroom when we moved...see here...so happy to have repurposed those as well as the sheers...there's lots of material in curtains so I had plenty...

...then I sewed all of the squares together...just sewing the blocks into a strip and then sewing the strips together - easy...peasy...(Quilting layout instructions here)...

...then I made a sandwich with the quilt top...the finished quilt top on the bottom - right side up...the quilt backing in the middle right side down...this puts the right sides together...so that when you turn it right side out the top and the bottom will be on the top and the bottom...and the quilt batting is on top - so that it's in the middle of the sandwich when it's right side out...