quilt made from wedding dress
 

At Christmastime, my DIL asked me to make a quilt out of her wedding dress for their daughter's first birthday next month. It will be used as a wall hanging. Her dress wasn't very ornate but she had sewn sea shell buttons and some pearls on her veil. The dress was mostly satin with a chiffon train and I also used some tulle from her veil in the blocks. She had already disassembled the dress, so I didn't have to deal with the first cut.

This is the end result. I hope it isn't too 'quirky' but I enjoyed doing it. She wanted to stay with white fabric, so the cotton I used for sashing is WOW with starfish designs. I tried some silk ribbon embroidery (first time) on a couple of blocks. Daffodils are her favorite flower, so I hope my ribbon embroidery is identifiable as such! The other embroidery on the blocks was done with white thread on my sewing machine. They had a beach wedding and she wore flip flops, so I bought buttons to symbolize that.

I'll be mailing it across the country soon. I hope she likes it!

very nicely done!!!

Sweet! You did a great job!

You are a brave woman and you love your daughter and granddaughter very much to take on that task. You did a beautiful job and I'm sure will give other quilters some great ideas.

Just beautiful!!

Absolutely WOW - gives me great ideas - I bought a huge wedding dress at a garage sale a few years ago - the "man of the house" was manning the garage sale at the time that I was there and I asked how much the dress was as it was not marked and he said - $1.00 - so I gave him $1.00 so fast and threw it in my car and sped away before his wife came outside. It has LOTS of fancy lace and trims on it. It is still hanging on the back of my closet door - probably dusty by now.

Beautiful - love the flip flops.

Absolutely beautiful!

What a beautiful quilt. That will be an heirloom.

Sure came out cute! Job well done !