The Wedding Quilt
Jan. 7th, 2004 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
revchrisGrowing up, mom always did all sorts of crafts, one of which was (and still is) quilting. When each of the kids went to college, we got a quilt, with the warning that we couldn't have another one until we got married. I got an extra one in the middle by calling mom and saying "Can I have a new quilt? I just bought a bigger bed, and the old quilt is too small." Right after I met ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
teeka, I had bought a double bed, and the twin-bed sized quilt I had just barely covered the top, leaving nothing to hang down over the edges, and teeka kept stealing the covers. Mom went downstairs to her craft room and pulled a top out of the Quilt Tops tote, and started assembling a quilt (when you're a quilter, you make tops, even if you don't have any immediate plans to put them together into quilts).
We still have the small quilt, it's down in the laundry room right now because it hasn't moved up to the spare bedroom since we camped out last. The second quilt, however, is back in the shop.teeka and I managed to pop a lot of the long seams, and mom is either going to fix it or replace the top with a different one, because we like having it around for camping with (it is a very heavy quilt, and is quite warm, which can be important in spring/fall camping).
The college quilts were simpler, usually machine stitched and tied. The wedding quilts were much more intricately pieced, and usually very densely quilted. Since I cleaned up the bedroom today (and made the bed) to show it off to relatives who we thought were going to stay longer than they did, I took some pictures of it.
The first one is of almost the whole bed - this is quilt #3, and bed #3 (a king sized bed we bought by selling the double bed toteeka's parents). The finished quilt is approximately 10' x 10', making it big enough to go down to the floor all the way around a king sized bed with an extra thick mattress.
The second one is a closeup to show the quilting detail. It's all blackwork (black thread on black fabric), and was done by freehand machine quilting (you retract the feed dogs on your sewing machine and move the quilt around freehand). Mom says it destroyed two sewing machines (it mostly did in her 37-year-old Viking, and also trashed a new Pfaff, which she had replaced, and had to have fixed once before the quilt was done).
teeka, I had bought a double bed, and the twin-bed sized quilt I had just barely covered the top, leaving nothing to hang down over the edges, and teeka kept stealing the covers. Mom went downstairs to her craft room and pulled a top out of the Quilt Tops tote, and started assembling a quilt (when you're a quilter, you make tops, even if you don't have any immediate plans to put them together into quilts).We still have the small quilt, it's down in the laundry room right now because it hasn't moved up to the spare bedroom since we camped out last. The second quilt, however, is back in the shop.
teeka and I managed to pop a lot of the long seams, and mom is either going to fix it or replace the top with a different one, because we like having it around for camping with (it is a very heavy quilt, and is quite warm, which can be important in spring/fall camping).The college quilts were simpler, usually machine stitched and tied. The wedding quilts were much more intricately pieced, and usually very densely quilted. Since I cleaned up the bedroom today (and made the bed) to show it off to relatives who we thought were going to stay longer than they did, I took some pictures of it.
The first one is of almost the whole bed - this is quilt #3, and bed #3 (a king sized bed we bought by selling the double bed to
teeka's parents). The finished quilt is approximately 10' x 10', making it big enough to go down to the floor all the way around a king sized bed with an extra thick mattress.The second one is a closeup to show the quilting detail. It's all blackwork (black thread on black fabric), and was done by freehand machine quilting (you retract the feed dogs on your sewing machine and move the quilt around freehand). Mom says it destroyed two sewing machines (it mostly did in her 37-year-old Viking, and also trashed a new Pfaff, which she had replaced, and had to have fixed once before the quilt was done).
