In my first post I mentioned that I have been making memory quilts with pieces of my daughter, Brianna’s clothing incorporated. I feel the need to “catch up” to where I am today, this will be a quick rewind to present.
So far, I’ve made nine. Each one is different and I try to use the recipients favorite color and almost always make the backing blue, Brianna’s favorite color. In my Purrfectly Imperfect post, I shared our personal memory quilt, The orange and blue borders and binding are the only portion that is not her clothing. (I should mention, I did not design this quilt, Deb Curtis did) With each memory quilt I have made or am in the process of making, I incorporate pieces of her clothes into the pattern that I have designed with my EQ7 (Electric Quilt 7) program. I also try, if I have enough leftover material, to incorporated material from the other quilts I’ve made into another one. This gives them another connection other than Brianna’s clothing. So, some of them are doubly intertwined. I think this gives them a scrappy/patchy look to the quilts. Which in my opinion is part of the whimsy of what makes a quilt a quilt.
I have attached pictures of most of the nine quilts, with the exception of two of them. Those will have to wait until the recipients actually get them! After all, it wouldn’t be fair for everyone else to see them first.
Purrfectly Imperfect 