My first quilt, and it's wool
I have been wanting to post these pictures but I didn't know how to upload photos until now. This is my first ever quilt, and it's made from clothing from our closets and from the Sally Army. It was a lot of fun looking for the clothes and working with them. They all went straight into the washing machine and were washed and then machine dried using the hottest, longest cycles available. Some of the fabrics didn't felt, so were left out.
The leaves were traced from ones I collected while walking the dogs. Except for the red, 3-lobed leaf (bottom left of first picture), which is poison ivy, which I didn't want to touch, so I used my imagination. Easy to do, we have a ton of it around here.
The finished top was longarm quilted by a lady who lived nearby at that time. The batting is thin, and the backing is cotton, but it is still quite heavy and so cozy!
I never used cedar or mothballs with this but I did keep bags of whole cloves with it, but one small moth hole appeared. I embroidered a bee over the hole!
I have been working on another wool quilt for the past few years, I will try to take some pictures of that one too.