{"id":2513,"date":"2023-02-10T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2022-12-31T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T14:30:52","slug":"new-old-quilt-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/10\/new-old-quilt-project\/","title":{"rendered":"New old quilt project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sibling C and I have been working on the red and white bowtie quilt<\/a> project. I finally finished sewing all the seams back together (although a second look-through showed that my initial standard for “good” may have been too low).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I assembled the back panel from some coordinating and some scrap fabrics. The brown floral fabric I mentioned in the last post is actually a large amount (maybe enough to make a dress), so I didn’t want to use it if possible. The tradeoff is that I had to do more piecing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Planned layout for back. The big purple\/green block is folded in half here, so the back would actually be larger. The blue and white and blue speckled-y fabrics are hand-dyed by me with indigo and turmeric using shibori techniques (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shibori)!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The “batting”<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I bought a lovely but worn hand-sewn quilt from eBay to use as filling for this new quilt. Reusing an old quilt like this used to be more common<\/a>, when fabric and batting was more valuable. Old blankets or sheets, for a lightweight quilt, can be used as well. Search on eBay using the keyword “damage” or “damaged” to find good quilt or blanket candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The old quilt needed some repairs to make it useable. Sibling C and I sewed up that big rip and padded thin areas with scraps of cotton batting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sandwiched all the layers (back, batting, and top), safety-pinned together, and rolled up around some PVC pipes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We’re in the quilting stage right now. The quilting pattern is pretty simple, just outlining the red bowties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since this quilt is pretty large (maybe 70″ x 78″) we used a special setup to get the excess fabric out of the way when working on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still a lot of quilting left!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sibling C and I have been working on the red and white bowtie quilt project. I finally finished sewing all the seams back together (although a second look-through showed that my initial standard for “good” may have been too low). I assembled the back panel from some coordinating and some scrap fabrics. The brown floral … <\/p>\n

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