Let's talk about your hardest quilt..
or, your biggest accomplishment.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to last week's talking topic, I wasn't surprised to see that we all love shopping, but it was interesting to hear what parts of the process drive us to "make" the quilts we do. (I still can't believe some of you enjoy cutting, uugh!)
This week please write a post (and share a photo?) of the quilt you are most proud of, the one you worked the hardest (longest?) on, that you were really happy to finally put in that last stitch and call it done.
Tell us its story, from start to finish, and let us know where the treasured quilt resides now.
If you don't have a chance to write a post (or aren't a member of the blog), please write some comments on this week's posts to encourage us all to push through the harder parts and get it finished so we can appreciate a new quilt in the world.
for me.. my biggest labor of love (of the ones I've actually finished..) would be this one:
My T-shirt Quilt (2010)
Made from t-shirts collected from 1990-2005, this quilt represents 15 years of my life. Childhood, high school, college, studying and living in Japan, meeting my husband, moving up an down the east coast.. and pieced in with all the shirts are my favorite fabrics from 1998-2007. Like this one with the little fish:
and the fold-dyed Japanese one. I was never a huge fan of t-shirt quilts, but I am a supporter of preserving material culture and personal histories (um, quilter), and I couldn't bring myself to throw away or donate any of these shirts, like this one from my traveling drama troupe in Hokkaido:
My life changed a lot in my 20s, and certain decisions set me on a path I couldn't have predicted. A lot of teenage dreams were set aside in exchange for options I hadn't thought possible. But still, old dreams die hard. For me, putting these t-shirts into a quilt gave me some closure on a chapter of my life I was sad to see end.
It's not my favorite quilt, but I'm really happy it's done, and I think 15~30 years from now I will really appreciate having made it. Right now, it is folded on the quiltrack in my bedroom, and we put it on the bed in the coldest winter months, underneath this one. I don't really show it off, but it's warm, and it's nice to keep the memories all in one place.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to last week's talking topic, I wasn't surprised to see that we all love shopping, but it was interesting to hear what parts of the process drive us to "make" the quilts we do. (I still can't believe some of you enjoy cutting, uugh!)
This week please write a post (and share a photo?) of the quilt you are most proud of, the one you worked the hardest (longest?) on, that you were really happy to finally put in that last stitch and call it done.
Tell us its story, from start to finish, and let us know where the treasured quilt resides now.
If you don't have a chance to write a post (or aren't a member of the blog), please write some comments on this week's posts to encourage us all to push through the harder parts and get it finished so we can appreciate a new quilt in the world.
for me.. my biggest labor of love (of the ones I've actually finished..) would be this one:
My T-shirt Quilt (2010)
Made from t-shirts collected from 1990-2005, this quilt represents 15 years of my life. Childhood, high school, college, studying and living in Japan, meeting my husband, moving up an down the east coast.. and pieced in with all the shirts are my favorite fabrics from 1998-2007. Like this one with the little fish:
It's not my favorite quilt, but I'm really happy it's done, and I think 15~30 years from now I will really appreciate having made it. Right now, it is folded on the quiltrack in my bedroom, and we put it on the bed in the coldest winter months, underneath this one. I don't really show it off, but it's warm, and it's nice to keep the memories all in one place.