Mr Mauve Quilt is finally heading for his new home!
20 years ago, in another life, with a husband whose favourite colour was purple, and with a mauve wallpapered bedroom, I started this bad boy.
The top making was OK, I got the bit between the teeth and got the sewing done quickly.
Then I made the decision to handquilt him...
AND I chose polycotton for the backing, AND dacron for the wadding.
Mauve quilt then followed me through 4 house moves and a marriage breakdown.
Every winter (coz I can only do this during the 3 cooler months of the year), I would drag mauve quilt out, do a few stitches, swear at the dacron that was shredding away at the edges, and put him away again.
20 years went by.... Last winter I made the firm resolution to deal with him. Out he came. Then to get more handquilting ideas I googled "quilting"... Pandora's box opened right before my eyes:
online virtual Bees... I belonged to 5 at one stage!
Youtube tutorials...
gorgeous bright fabrics to give the Paypal account a workout...
I made several quilts before Mr Mauve got a turn: 20 years of handquilting unpicked in 30 minutes, the Dacron shucked out, the TLC of Pam the Quilting Guru, and here he is, ready to start a new life at DD's house with, amongst its fabrics, bits of dresses I made her as a little one!:
