OK, I've ripped out the seams of my wedding dress and it seems a lot smaller than it did when it was all together, flowing, and ON. And my old giant sized "boyfriend" style suede jacket, likewise. THe linings are out and only one dress left to disassemble... my stepdaughter's red silk dress that she wore to my wedding. I've sought the advice of my Faithful Circle Quilt Guild , and came up with the very smart idea to get fuseable interfacing to use to stabilize the silks that I'm using for this quilt. That will make them easier to work with.
Pretty much everyone was in agreement with my idea to do a crazy quilt from this, but my contrary nature just kicked in and said to myself, "if that's what everyone thinks should be done, I want to do it differently. DANGEROUS idea.
So I've thought through this. The double Irish Chain pattern would look really cool in these colors. My white skirt providing the white background color, Songee's red dress being the dark X color, and the medium part of the chain would be the beige jacket. Hmmm... I'm thinking of it. If I cut the strips and pieces that I need to do a chain, and it doesn't work for me, I can always start just piecing them, willy-nilly as originally planned. We'll see.
And as I look at it, it doesn't look like NEAR enough fabric to constitute a whole quilt... the nice kind that I want that will keep me warm with all my memories, as I get older... but I know that can be deceptive. We'll see.
Another idea for this... I might just take 4 squares of a foot per side, of the white dress, and use it to make very small art quilt pieces, like quilting/stitching samplers... and then string them together for a wall-hanging... maybe using some of the beading trip that I used for the neckline. A few beads to string together 4 mini-quilts... Still thinking, thinking, thinking.
