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Call me crazy...
I have been thinking lately about my wedding dress. It's just sitting in my office closet. So sad and lonely! I want to do something with it.
I don't want to do the trash the dress thing w/ photos and stuff. I want to somehow preserve it a little. It has a wine stain on it so I don't think passing it down to my daughter would be good. Nor do I think she would want it.
So I'm thinking about making a quilt out of it. I'm also planning on making each child (when I have more kids) a quilt of their own out of old clothing of theirs. So maybe I could add in a little of my dress on each one?
What do you think? Would it be machine washable? It's satin...
Re: Call me crazy...
I know one of the other ladies took a bridesmaid dress from her friends wedding and made it into a baby blanket for said friends baby.
Hopefully she will chime in.
I just have to say, our LO's have almost the same stats. My DS was delivered at 40w3d, 8lbs4oz and 20.5inches.
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Mine is preserved and boxed up. I really hope that my daughter would want to wear it. Or maybe take a piece of lace from it and sew it into her dress.
I've seen people make christening gowns out of their dresses too.
How much quilting have you done in the past, and what techniques are you comfortable with? I would be nervous to try out something new on my wedding dress.
What dimensions would you want the finished product to be? What are you hoping it will be used for? If it's going to be a daily use blanket on a bed, obviously you'll design it differently than if it's going to be hung on a wall or used in baby photos, and then that will affect how washable it needs to be. Whether it will be washable will depend on how it's sewn and which pieces of the dress you're incorporating into the quilt.
How much yardage is in your dress? Would you be adding other material?
This sounds like a fun project. I'm too chicken to take scissors to mine, but I'd love to see and hear how yours goes!
Thanks ladies! This project is more for the future...like far future! Since I just had my first baby and wouldn't do this until I'm done having babies.
I'm hoping to be a wonderful quilter by then. Right now I'm still in the beginning stages. I haven't given too much thought to how big or what patterns yet. I do know that I would want it to be a usable blanket, not for hanging/staging at all. I want that thing to get used dangit!
I am planning on only using small pieces of the satin for each child's blanket. Along with fabric from clothes they wore as babies (hence this being an in-the-far-future sort of deal). And the baby clothes fabric would be the majority of each one.
I just want to get a head start thinking and planning everything out before I take on such a feat!
As you practice and get a feel for quilting, you'll be able to mentally plan out how you'd use the dress. Like the quilt I made for my MIL that taught me the do's and don'ts (especially the don't) of velvet + satin piecing. lol.
I think including kids' baby clothes (and even memorable favorite items throughout their childhoods) would be sweet. It would make a nice college going away present.