Hard at Work

The next step of course... actually doing work. We had a great big stack of printed paper pieced Mariners Compass blocks (112 pages of them...) and all we had to do now was start sewing.

And so, finally, we started cutting out our pieces...

And at last, sewing the pieces back together...

Soon it was coming along...

Needless to say, soon there were blocks.

Stay tuned to see the full block!

Procrastination

The first step in the process was... well we didn't know. So we procrastinated like crazy, visiting with all the other ladies at the retreat, before finally deciding that the first step was to tear apart wedding dresses. OK, so this may have been more procrastination to avoid figuring out how to actually sew the dresses back together, but soon we were hard at work.

Ok, in all honesty, maybe we weren't working THAT hard...

Well, no matter how hard we were working, eventually we ended with piles and piles of wedding dress.

So, rather than a mess of dress, soon the fabrics were sorted into boxes (nicely labeled by none other than myself) and we were ready to start sewing.

How did the sewing process go? Stay tuned to find out!

Kathleen

The Wedding Dress Quilt

Welcome to the Wedding Dress Quilt Blog!

A few months ago, I stumbled upon the Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation and their quilting challenge: they send you a box of wedding dresses, and you make a quilt out of them. So, my grandmother, my mother (a breast cancer survivor) and myself decided (or well, I decided and decided to drag more of my family down with me) to make a quilt out of old wedding dresses.... and the box arrived a few weeks later...

We decided to add some pink silks to the fabrics: a kit called "Pink Purpose" from Brewer that also benefits breast cancer:

We started the quilt at Quilting From The Heart's fall retreat. The first step was un-boxing all the quilts (Ok, me and my friends had already un-boxed them and tried them all on, but I decided not to count that....) All the other ladies were pretty excited to see what we were doing...

Finally me and my grandma (from here on referred to as "Granny") managed to get our hands on some dresses.

So what happens next? Stay tuned to find out!

Later days.
Kathleen