The quilt started with the striped (cream, green, dark brown and mid blue) fabric that was purchased as a second hand man's shirt from an St Vincents Opportunity Shop in Melbourne. I LOVE secondhand man's shirts - they come in great colours, are soft from some wear, pure cotton and you get heaps of fabric for a tiny price!
The dark blue fabric is from another secondhand shirt, and the brown is a lovely linen, from the new shirting remnants my girlfriend bought me in Singapore. The rest of the fabrics are from Amitie in Melbourne, one of my very favourite fabric shops.
I quilted this myself. First I ditch stitched the whole quilt, then I did some FMQ, but not much as I wanted it to stay soft and drape well. My Dad is a man of plain tastes, so I didn't want to the quilt to get too fussy. I used a stylised chain fence design on all the plain blue blocks, placed anywhere in the block that felt right, but continuing that same line across all blue blocks in that row or column....
...echo quilting around the circles and diamonds for the fabric below....
...and a stylised vine or tree design on the green and while dot fabric
I used an old doily for the label on the back, and carefully unpicked and attached the labels from the shirt that had been part of my inspiration. (The labels from the navy shirt had already been included in a previous quilt that it was partially used for).
I had to include this last photo because of the lamb in the background, I guess spring is arriving in New Zealand!
Hope your dad loved it and is getting a lot of use with the chilli snap we've had.
ReplyDeleteVery inspired now to collect up men's shirts, yet another reason to visit the op shops, Yay.
Great photos, love the one on the old gate.
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