Soooooo, back in 2012 Mum was sorting out and decided to give me her wedding dress to make something, rather than it sit in a box for another 46 years!!! If you have been following me and my blog for a little while, you may remember this from 2013 - Wedding Dress - Part One or maybe this Wedding Dress - Part Two, both made for Mum's 70th Birthday.
Well the 26th February is Mum & Dad's 50th Anniversary - for a gift, it would only be appropriate to make something else with the remainder of the dress. So, with not enough dress for a full quilt, but definitely enough for a bed runner - to keep those toes warm, off I set. Fifty Hearts for Fifty Years.
Knowing the wedding dress was going to fray after working with in in 2013, I did place vilene on all the sections, hoping that it would stop the worse.
Joining the blocks, the fraying started with small amounts....
And gradually got worse!
Quilting in a really nice gold thread, had it's problems as well - being a three strand thread it kept splitting and getting caught in the machine - I've never had this side off the machine so boy did it need a clean after untangling the spilt thread!!
Binding, and final quilting - with the title and date quilted on the front.
Ta Dah
Its lovely! 50/50 well done
ReplyDeleteThe inside of your machine - not so lovely - you'll have to show me how that's done I've got a sneaking suspicion that the inside of my machine is worse!!