Group Quilt 2025
As Chair for 2024-25, Teresa wanted us to create a traditional Group Quilt, firmly anchored in Reduce, Reuse and Recycle and with almost no environmental impact.
A free large bag of lovely silk and velvet fabrics was sourced from Facebook Marketplace and these immediately suggested a crazy quilt, so Teresa cut the fabrics into pieces and assembled them into project bags. Members then created traditional crazy quilt blocks, stitching the pieces onto a foundation of an old cotton sheet and embroidering the seams with some of the designs traditionally used for this layout.
The only new materials used in this project have been four colours of pearl cotton thread for the hand embroidery on the blocks.
The batting for this quilt is a repurposed traditional wool blanket. The quilt will be tied and then backed with a tie-died old sheet.
A free large bag of lovely silk and velvet fabrics was sourced from Facebook Marketplace and these immediately suggested a crazy quilt, so Teresa cut the fabrics into pieces and assembled them into project bags. Members then created traditional crazy quilt blocks, stitching the pieces onto a foundation of an old cotton sheet and embroidering the seams with some of the designs traditionally used for this layout.
The only new materials used in this project have been four colours of pearl cotton thread for the hand embroidery on the blocks.
The batting for this quilt is a repurposed traditional wool blanket. The quilt will be tied and then backed with a tie-died old sheet.
Sorting the fabrics
Teresa's sample blocks
At our 6th January meeting, Malvern Quilters began the first stage of assembling this project - cutting sashing strips and preparing the backing sheet for tie-dyeing.
Further assembly of this year's group quilt will be done at our next Sit & Sew day on Saturday, 11th January.
Further assembly of this year's group quilt will be done at our next Sit & Sew day on Saturday, 11th January.
6th January 2025
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