Originally Posted by emsgranny

or even should it!!! I have a beautiful tablecloth that my mother embroidered for us when we got married almost 32 years ago. We have sold the china that went with it and we no longer use tablecloths. I also have a similar one given to me my my aunt as a shower gift done in verigated browns.

Do you think it can be made into a quilt top instead? Its not l00%cotton and I am not really sure what it is. I have tried to take a picture of fabric so you have an idea. Also including picture of parts of tablecloth.

I havbe 2 daughters so they would each have a quilt if it can be done (they would be more apt to use a quilt than a tablecloth)

Do you think I should try it or just keep it as is - It is very special to me but its not being used!!!! Help!!!!

Originally Posted by JulieR

I'm a flea marketer, so my first thought would be to pick up something similar and do a "test run" first, to make sure I liked the end result.

At the end of the day, it's YOURS to do with as you wish. If you would enjoy it more in a new form, then by all means do it!

Originally Posted by pal

I wonder if you could cut out the excess white, so that you have a border and a center - and applique the embroidery on blue - or applique blue over the plain white, just using the embroidered parts. I think that is called "shadow quilting". It would be a lot of work, but I think well worth it. It has probably been washed enough times so that it wouldn't shrink any more. It's beautiful!!

Originally Posted by SewSydney

It looks like its linen to me and from the vintage it could be. Counted thread cross stitch on linen was very popular here around that time.

I think it will be a beautiful quilt top and its something that your daughters can look at and and know that their grandmother worked it and you constructed it!!

I'm going to look through my linen press now, I have some tablecloths worked by my grandmother and there could be a world of possibilities for them. Thanks for the suggestion and good luck with your project.

Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd

Everyone has such nice ideas!! But the main thing she said was that she has TWO daughters, both of whom would like something from the past. I think the problem is that it must be cut apart to make two quilts, possibly with carefully matched colors to extend the original tablecloth. I'd like to see how that would be done. I think that making several pictures of it and cutting each of them apart and putting them into different patterns might show a way to make two quilts from this lovely piece of art.