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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 583708, member: 111"]The best crazy quilts are those filled with memories, and this one certainly is. The shattered silk pieces are typical, the result of the treatments used to stiffen and weight the silk, someone with a bit of skill can stitch a sheer net overlay on those bits to preserve what's left. If you're going to store it back away, fold it along different lines and loosely wrap a clean cotton sheet around it.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a crazy quilt pillow, one of two I made for my Mom and myself 30+ years ago, the fabrics coming from both of our stashes. The fabrics are cotton, velvets, satins, etc., even a bit of rayon, and they range in date from the '40s to '70s, the bit of lace on the left is from an old dress collar that belonged to my great, great Aunt Karen (born in the 1880s). There are a variety of embroidery stitches and threads, a few beads - the couched gold thread pansy on the right was at Mom's request, mine has a similarly done lily of the valley.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]175144[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 583708, member: 111"]The best crazy quilts are those filled with memories, and this one certainly is. The shattered silk pieces are typical, the result of the treatments used to stiffen and weight the silk, someone with a bit of skill can stitch a sheer net overlay on those bits to preserve what's left. If you're going to store it back away, fold it along different lines and loosely wrap a clean cotton sheet around it. This is a crazy quilt pillow, one of two I made for my Mom and myself 30+ years ago, the fabrics coming from both of our stashes. The fabrics are cotton, velvets, satins, etc., even a bit of rayon, and they range in date from the '40s to '70s, the bit of lace on the left is from an old dress collar that belonged to my great, great Aunt Karen (born in the 1880s). There are a variety of embroidery stitches and threads, a few beads - the couched gold thread pansy on the right was at Mom's request, mine has a similarly done lily of the valley. [ATTACH=full]175144[/ATTACH] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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