Memory Quilt
05-08-2012, 03:02 PM
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Memory Quilt
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A lady at our church recently lost her husband of many many years. She was donating his clothing and I asked if she would like for me and another lady to make her a memory quilt. She said yes so here are a few pictures of what we came up with:
They both loved to travel to Hawaii to visit their 2 sons so there were quite a few Hawaiian shirts. My friend made a pineapple applique pattern. We took 1 of the shirts that had lots of green leaves on it for the tops of the pineapples. I machine appliqued them on blocks and my friend did the sashing and put the blocks together. I pieced the back using shirts that the man had that had special embroidery on them. I then quilted it using a stiple around the pineapples, some meandering ribbons with leaves on the sashing and cross quilting on the pineapples. I see lots of errors but my DH said he loves it...
A lady at our church recently lost her husband of many many years. She was donating his clothing and I asked if she would like for me and another lady to make her a memory quilt. She said yes so here are a few pictures of what we came up with:
They both loved to travel to Hawaii to visit their 2 sons so there were quite a few Hawaiian shirts. My friend made a pineapple applique pattern. We took 1 of the shirts that had lots of green leaves on it for the tops of the pineapples. I machine appliqued them on blocks and my friend did the sashing and put the blocks together. I pieced the back using shirts that the man had that had special embroidery on them. I then quilted it using a stiple around the pineapples, some meandering ribbons with leaves on the sashing and cross quilting on the pineapples. I see lots of errors but my DH said he loves it...
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