Making a quilt from dance recital costumes
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Making a quilt from dance recital costumes
My granddaughter has asked me to make a quilt from her senior classes dance recital costumes. I want to know how this can be done with costumes that are slick and stretchy material like Lycra. Has anyone tried this? Thank you!
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I would stabilize the material like you would a T-Shirt quilt. Or like you would a crazy quilt. I know others will possibly have better suggestions but that's all I can think of at the moment for stretchy fabric.
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I would make a crazy quilt. The lycra should be sewn with a ball point needle and a stretch stitch if you have one on your machine. You can even use the trim from the costumes to embellish the seams.
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It can be done, a friend of mine is doing the same thing, her granddaughter graduates this next year. Be sure and like was posted use stabilizer. Do a search on the internet.... I just put in dance uniform quilt and some beautiful pictures and lots of ideas came up...
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I notice the commenter has only made one comment on the forum, so I'm guessing that they stumbled across this post through a random internet search on a preferred topic (I went from quilts to house insulation to plumbing DIY the other day thanks to a rabbit trail I followed) and they then responded, not realizing it was old.
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