Originally Posted by Pickle
I was shopping with a friend for fabric to make my DH and I a new outfit for square dancing, I used to make my skirt and his shirt to match. It is fun for sq. dancing. Well any way my friend said to me if you bought one more choice of fabric you could make a quilt. I said how would I do that and my friend said" Oh.I will teach you" So there you have it. That was 20 yrs ago.I am still quilting.
Knowing I would one day get back into quilting, I saved all the scraps of fabric from the zillion matching square dance outfits I made. I started, as a child with hand piecing and treadle machine work with my grandmother. She got all the scraps from the clothes my mom made for the family. I cut the pieces for the Sun Bonnet Sue quilts. When time came for me to sew on my own, it had to be quickie things. Home decor, curtains and coverlets. So they were hand tied numbers.
While I was dancing, the outfits and dance consumed leisure time not spent camping, gardening, cooking, and such. Within the last several years, I've gotten more interested in submissions for the county fair. All my hobbies seem to end up there. I noticed that I lacked a quilt for display, and decided that this was going to be the "Year of the Quilt." So, I keep making quilts and giving them away stashing fabric, rearranging my entire house to accommodate supplies, cutting tables, extra machines (18), (I'm teaching my 4-H students how to quilt,) and what!? I have nothing to enter into the fair.
But back to the Square Dance clothes . . . no longer fit enough to dance, and the clothes no longer fit. I believe they will serve me better as quilts than a donation to a thrift store. It'll be hard to take the scissors to the outfits, but once I do, it'll make for some great memories.