Making: A Memory Quilt for Noa

It's been awhile since I posted anything new here.  It's not that I have nothing to post, actually, it's the opposite.  I've been having so much fun making new work that I haven't been able to slow down enough to photograph it and put it up on the blog!  Not really a bad problem to have.

So, while I've been away from blog-land, I made a few things which I'll post over the next few weeks.  Let me start with this quilt that I made for a friend from her now two year old's baby clothes.


These clothes sat in a box next to my sewing machine for nearly a year before I had a chance to start the project.  (Thank goodness my friend didn't mind that I held her sweet baby clothes hostage for that long!)

She gave me an idea of what she wanted - mainly something BIG!  I got started.


The clothes still smelled like baby!  Some of my friends know this; I'm a sucker for that smell.  So cute.  And here it is, the finished quilt!  Yay!!!  She only had to wait a year!

Noa's Technicolor Clothes Quilt
 

7 comments:

  1. This is quite simply the most beautiful memory quilt I've ever seen ... Baby clothes are so stretchy that all the quilts I've seen end up lookin a bit 'lumpy' ... but this is really sublime!

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    1. Thank you! I stabilized some of the really thin fabrics with a stretchy cotton interfacing, but most of them are not stabilized. The fabrics were a bit challenging to work with!

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  2. Brilliant, Stace! I wish I had been smart enough to request one.

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  3. Awesome, such a beautiful quilt! I had a bag of Zoey's old dresses literally fall on top of my head the other day (note to self: clean studio asap) and thought about making a quilt with them. Until she found them and cried at the idea of my putting scissors to them. Guess I'll wait a few more years.

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  4. Brilliant - I am completely in love with the circles. That design element really elevates this beyond the ordinary "quilt made of baby clothes".

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  5. This is absolutely beautiful. I have two huge bags of my son's baby clothes that I've been saving for some divine inspiration. I've found it, thanks to you. :)

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  6. That is fantastic! You should never have posted pictures of that. You will be receiving more boxes of baby clothes in the near future.

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