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- 16 Gru 2019
Helloooo, I was sent here from the fabric arts/knitting drama thread lol.
I just finished two kids' quilts today, and this project was a doozy.
So yeah here they are! I'm a new quilter, I don't have a quilting foot or a long arm or anything, I do it all by hand or with my Bernina 590. I taught myself to sew about this time last year, and stated by hand. I made a quilt by hand to see if I'd like it, and I loved it, so I got a sewing machine last spring lol. Still learning the ropes!
I used a lightweight cotton batting, and the backing is this super soft king sized sheet we already had lol. I'm kind of freaked out by overconsumption, and I don't like buying new fabric unless I have to for some specific reason. I almost always thrift random fabrics wherever I can. I love sustainable, functional quilting, like Gees Bend style. It was really cool to give these meaningful items new purpose instead of just tossing them away. Anyway thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
I just finished two kids' quilts today, and this project was a doozy.
My husband's friend was a Marine, he's retired now, and they were cleaning out their garage a few weeks ago and found all his various fatigues. He was shipped out to the middle east a few times in his career, and he has kind of a weird relationship with his service, so he was just going to donate the fatigues and get rid of them.
My husband knows I'm a fabric hound and rescued them for me, and I seam ripped them into pieces of fabric again, and cleaned them up. A BUNCH of sand fell out of the seams, even after multiple washes lol. Anyway. We got the silly idea to make quilts for his kids out of them, so he can still keep his fatigues but in a more useful way, you know? Who wants to look at old clothes in the back of the closet once a year when they can have something functional, right?
I wanted to try try a hunters star pattern with the alternating dark and tan fatigues, but my husband wanted me to make something that looked patchworky and organic, so I winged the whole thing and it was a lot harder than I expected lol. I thought creative crazy quilting would be easy, I was dead wrong. It takes a lot of skill to make the pieces look good together still. I feel like I learned a lot of technique through the challenge. But I got to deliver them today, and the wife is just about to go to the hospital to induce labor for her second child, so the timing felt perfect.
I made one that's mostly dark fatigues with tan accents and binding, and a tan name tape, with pink sashiko mending spots where holes were worn through the fabric. The other is the opposite of course, tan with dark accents and binding and name tape and blue mending. The blue is for their little boy, and the pink is for their soon to be arriving little girl! They seemed to really like them, which I'm happy about, but I personally don't like them very much lol. I'm chalking it up to personal taste, I think I would have really preferred a planned pattern, but they weren't for me, and since it was partially my husband's idea for his friend, I wanted to include his contribution, you know? It's more important that everyone else likes them.
My husband knows I'm a fabric hound and rescued them for me, and I seam ripped them into pieces of fabric again, and cleaned them up. A BUNCH of sand fell out of the seams, even after multiple washes lol. Anyway. We got the silly idea to make quilts for his kids out of them, so he can still keep his fatigues but in a more useful way, you know? Who wants to look at old clothes in the back of the closet once a year when they can have something functional, right?
I wanted to try try a hunters star pattern with the alternating dark and tan fatigues, but my husband wanted me to make something that looked patchworky and organic, so I winged the whole thing and it was a lot harder than I expected lol. I thought creative crazy quilting would be easy, I was dead wrong. It takes a lot of skill to make the pieces look good together still. I feel like I learned a lot of technique through the challenge. But I got to deliver them today, and the wife is just about to go to the hospital to induce labor for her second child, so the timing felt perfect.
I made one that's mostly dark fatigues with tan accents and binding, and a tan name tape, with pink sashiko mending spots where holes were worn through the fabric. The other is the opposite of course, tan with dark accents and binding and name tape and blue mending. The blue is for their little boy, and the pink is for their soon to be arriving little girl! They seemed to really like them, which I'm happy about, but I personally don't like them very much lol. I'm chalking it up to personal taste, I think I would have really preferred a planned pattern, but they weren't for me, and since it was partially my husband's idea for his friend, I wanted to include his contribution, you know? It's more important that everyone else likes them.
So yeah here they are! I'm a new quilter, I don't have a quilting foot or a long arm or anything, I do it all by hand or with my Bernina 590. I taught myself to sew about this time last year, and stated by hand. I made a quilt by hand to see if I'd like it, and I loved it, so I got a sewing machine last spring lol. Still learning the ropes!
I used a lightweight cotton batting, and the backing is this super soft king sized sheet we already had lol. I'm kind of freaked out by overconsumption, and I don't like buying new fabric unless I have to for some specific reason. I almost always thrift random fabrics wherever I can. I love sustainable, functional quilting, like Gees Bend style. It was really cool to give these meaningful items new purpose instead of just tossing them away. Anyway thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
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