quilt made from wedding dress
02-20-2015, 07:09 AM
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Thank you for all the nice comments and the advice about how to mail, Gerbie. The project was a labor of love but also gave me the opportunity to try new things. I have always wanted to make a crazy quilt with (hand) embroidery and embellishments, so this was a baby step in that direction and I might pull out my 40+ year old dotted swiss wedding dress and start cutting it up! 
I emailed my DIL and asked what she'd like on the label and she suggested baby's name, dates of birth and baptism, and made from mother's wedding dress. I added "made by Grandma Marcia, March 2015." On a second smaller label I added son's & DIL's names and date of their marriage. I would have liked to be more poetic with the label, but my Janome 6600 doesn't have a lot of text embroidery options and labels were getting pretty large. I'm thinking of getting an embroidery machine just for labels but haven't researched yet. Maybe some day.
I emailed my DIL and asked what she'd like on the label and she suggested baby's name, dates of birth and baptism, and made from mother's wedding dress. I added "made by Grandma Marcia, March 2015." On a second smaller label I added son's & DIL's names and date of their marriage. I would have liked to be more poetic with the label, but my Janome 6600 doesn't have a lot of text embroidery options and labels were getting pretty large. I'm thinking of getting an embroidery machine just for labels but haven't researched yet. Maybe some day.
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