So many good and interesting ideas in this video! The idea of the swatch panel on the back of a memory quilt to identify the different fabrics was super cool.
Wow, I can't believe it's never occurred to me that a T-shirt quilt can be more than a bunch of squares. Your examples were so beautiful. Thank you all for this talk!
So enjoyed watching the recording of this conversation! I have a pile of my husbands old dress shirts and am inspired by Sherri's talk about not cutting t-shirts in squares to show off the text but to mix it up and let the fabric speak.
There were a number of brain changing ideas and new perspectives on a craft I thought I knew. My German grandparents who were, a my mother told, were poor as church mice. When Gram wanted a run on the dining room floor she scoured all the church rummage sales and bought mens suits (all wool in those days) and washed them, cut them up and made a braided rug with the strips. That was a lot of work but a project born our of necessity. She's gone now, as is the rug, but this discussion and that memory are an inspiration. Thank you!
Thank you all. Since I ‘met’ you Heidi at Quiltcon this year I have been on a journey. I was looking but I didn’t know what for. Your voices and pictures and ideas and viewpoints are settling into my head and shaping what my hands do….(in a good way). It’s exciting, opening, and a little scary all at the same time. Thank you!
great chat! for listeners in NYC, Fabscrap is another great resource for getting repurposed textiles (often some cool cast-offs from designers in the city). Also, my husband overheard the part where Heidi goes, (about the tablecloth), 'well, what did you think would happen, giving a quilter a textile?" and snorted. We may need to set some terms and conditions too....
I really enjoyed this talk. Lots of things to talk about, even though I mostly use repurposed materials, this gives me more things to mull over. I'm looking forward to the next talk.
Thank you all. I really enjoyed this session, so much to take on board and to look at. One of the first quilts I made (25 years ago) was from a bin bag of fabric from my MIL which contained dresses from when her girls were little and numerous other pieces of various substrates. I gifted it back to her and sadly I think it's languishing in her loft somewhere, maybe she wanted to offload it and not get it back!
Thoroughly enjoyed your lectures and conversation, I would have loved it to be a little bit longer and slower! A lot to absorb. Your video series are delightful! Can't wait for zerowaste - something I struggle with all the time!
I missed this one live, but really enjoyed the replay. I was 45 minutes in before I realized I was sorting through ribbons I've saved because they were too nice to throw out ... now, how to repurpose them?
