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This is one of three memory quilts I made a few years ago for the wife, mother, and daughter of a lovely man who died of cancer much too young. I mixed in a few of his dress shirts and T-shirts with other fabrics to make this one for his mom. She recently passed away as well which I was very sad to hear.
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My little quilting helpers!
Amos and Naomi have done a great job of taking over the 'quilt helper' role from Simon and River. I'm sure Mom would've tried to feed Amos and Naomi a handful of grapes too if she had gotten to meet them!
Finally got the embroidery inside the hearts completed and the blocks hand sewn together. Now comes a colorful border of Mom's clothing that will have various sea shells embroidered onto them!
Dad sent me Mom's clothing when he was ready and I started deconstructing them February 2, 2022. This is the longest continuous art project and first quilt I've ever done.
Second quilt made with hubby's old work shirts. I love how the top turned out, but new sewing machine and I probably should have done some more practice before committing.
The last picture was my original attempt at making a binding. Know how you think, "surely this piece is long enough, im good?" I gambled, and i lost. Lol.
The memory quilt is washed and ready to be mailed out with all four bears! I really love how the bears and the quilt look together
[Video description: a tour of a quilt top stopping at various blocks to better show the fabrics. And a hole. ]
Decided my next project is going to be finishing this family scrap quilt that I started 10 years ago
It's got a hole where the seams didn't line up that I need to fix, and it's pretty wonky, which is probably why I got frustrated with it and put it away. The fabrics mainly come from my mums stash and there's some really fun ones in here including a scrap from making the curtains for my room at university, scraps from dresses she made, and various outfits from over the years. Lots of silly sentimental bits.
Measures about 1.6 × 1.7 metres at the moment. I've got to decide what to use as the backing as I have buttloads of fabric in my stash that could finally get used.
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Minor repairs to The Quilt That Grandad Built, still going strong 3+ years later
Memorial Quilt and Bear Status
I usually don't share things that aren't writing or fanart here so this may be weird but I want to share with you some of my other hobbies!
I love to sew and the recent project I've taken on is a memorial quilt for a cousin who lost her husband in '24. I miss him very much and know that she misses him even more.
When she brought up the idea of a memory quilt, I jumped in! I vehemently offered to make it and although she hates to ask for help, I could tell that this would mean a lot to her.
She'll have him with her at all time this way.
In the meantime, I made her a bear from scrap fabric from his favorite, most memorable shirts. While I work on the quilt, I think he should help her cope until the big reveal
Now, I'm working on his memorial quilt. It will include things like his favorite graphic t-shirts as well as his most well-worn buttoned-ups that my cousin feels embody his memory,
I plan to cut the printed image/text from the graphic tees and then frame it with pieces of his more formal shirts with their patterns and little embellishments. I have all 'framed shirts' done and am cutting the filler pieces.
And you know me, I love to make things hard.
I'm thinking of a brick pattern to fill the gaps and using this nice blue my cousin picked out for the backing too. Here's my pattern to plan out these bricks.
I haven't gotten any further than this and I'm starting to wonder if I'm a madwoman for doing this much but when it comes to my cousin,
Also, here's Diamond helping.
(This is an older generation cousin, BTW. I don't know the exact generational terms but we know she cares for and treats my mother and I like her daughter and granddaughter)
Memory quilt progress WIP shot. All 62 pieces sourced from around 50 shirts and pajama pants from daycare in 1993ish through 2017ish have been cut, interfaced (which involved cutting a duplicate sized piece of interface then ironing the two together), measured for full fabric size, measured for design size margin, cataloged, labeled, and tagged…
Woof, right? Next is creating scaled paper versions of these pieces and arranging them on graph paper to figure out the final design. Then sewing - the thing I thought I was signing myself up for - lol. This is going to be something I am very proud of when it is finished, but right now I am rolling my eyes at past Alex for being totally on brand and picking the most complicated solution to this project.
