Piecing With 100% Wool
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Piecing With 100% Wool
I have a lot of wool scraps from old blankets that I would like to somehow work together into a small, quilt top for a pillow. The blankets are thick, so I don't think that sewing them together with thread will work. I've thought of darning them. (See my post on darning here: Do You Darn?) Perhaps felting them together might work better. Any good ideas out there?
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My granny used to cut squares or rectangles from wool blankets or men's shirts and crochet them together for throws, pillows, etc.
similar to this:
https://www.quiltingintherain.com/20...-tutorial.html
and this:
https://bipolaryarns.wordpress.com/2...-fabric-quilt/
similar to this:
https://www.quiltingintherain.com/20...-tutorial.html
and this:
https://bipolaryarns.wordpress.com/2...-fabric-quilt/
Last edited by mindless; 01-01-2021 at 01:54 PM.
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My granny used to cut squares or rectangles from wool blankets or men's shirts and crochet them together for throws, pillows, etc.
similar to this:
https://www.quiltingintherain.com/20...-tutorial.html
and this:
https://bipolaryarns.wordpress.com/2...-fabric-quilt/
similar to this:
https://www.quiltingintherain.com/20...-tutorial.html
and this:
https://bipolaryarns.wordpress.com/2...-fabric-quilt/
#5
My Mom used to use a very small metal crochet hook (could wiggle through the wool weave) with sock yarn, just a single crochet around the square and then joined with a slip stitch. They were very utility looking, most of the wool was plain grey (in my memory) and she used up bits of whatever sock yarn was left over.