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A while ago my friend Sheri contacted me to help with some quilts.
Sheri is a pastor’s wife from our old church and she’s the one who taught me to quilt 16 years ago!! Since we switched churches a long time ago I’d only bump into Sheri once in a while and she has heard about my quilting adventure and knew I long arm quilted.
So she had contacted me about long arm quilting 5 small quilts for her.
A woman at the old church had passed away I think a year ago and her husband wanted Sheri to make quilts out of her clothes.
We finally set up a day for her and her grown daughter to come here and quilt.
This one was all plaid and Sheri used the buttoned part of the shirts for the border, I told her I couldn’t quilt that, only the middle, so I set the quilting area to be just that and a bit part of the black. The back was clothes too!
While one quilt was on the frame, Sheri prepped batting and backing for the next one, her daughter showed Solveig how to play the Ukelele a bit too as Solveig is just learning.
We quilted 2 quilts then the power went out! and it was out for 3 hours! They left after everything else was prepped and there was nothing else to do, and then I finishing quilting the rest the next day.
This black and white (and pink) was a fun one
If you look at the back, Sheri had totally ripped apart a white shirt and sewn it back together flat!
All the back were clothing fabric too and different materials, then she had added stabilizer to make it not stretch after making the backs.
With both the top and back being clothing and not stabilized from the beginning, some of them got a bit wonky, but I think overall it’s ok.
This is the back of the one above
and front of another one
and back of that one
I’m missing pictures of #5 (which was actually the first one we quilted) I believe Sheri also made scrappy bindings from the clothes, I bet this took forever to make!
I didn’t want to charge for the quilting for her but they still paid me a little bit 🙂
Nice to help someone remember their family member that way. I made several ukulele’s out of fabric earlier this year. You could make one for your daughter.