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Baptism Quilt from a Wedding Dress

By: Barbara Geer
Published: 4/16/2012
About The Author: Barbara Geer, Creative Director/Digitizer, Grand Slam Designs, an embr... More

 
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Design used in this project are available here:
Family of God Shell Embroidery Design
                       
Materials:
  • Family of God Shell Embroidery Design or design of choice
  • Embroidery machine
  • Ripper, scissors, needle and thread for reassembly

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    The baptism quilt that was used for this project was brought in by a customer. She had in her possession a wedding dress that had been worn by her great aunt. She wanted to do something special with it and decided to use it for her granddaughter's baptism.

    The body of the quilt was two squares cut from the skirt portion of the dress. The ruffle on the quilt was the ruffle from the hem of the dress. She used the covered buttons from the dress to tie the quilt. She alternated the buttons with 1/4" satin ribbon tied into small bows.

    The end result was a very feminine heirloom quilt for a special girl.
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    Step 1: Select the design and choose the colors of the embroidery. Our baby was a girl, so the majority of the colors belong to the pink family.
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    Step 2: I like to edit the name and date to the design before I embroider the design. Even though you can run each line separately, I feel like I have more control over the accuracy if I edit it first and save it as one design.
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    Step 3: The quilt that was brought to our shop was constructed from a 1930s wedding dress. Since the quilt was completed, I opened the corner into which we were going to insert the embroidery.

    The right side of the quilt was attached to the batting. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Satin is very slippery, and the batting added bulk to the side we wanted to hoop. We hooped the satin, batting and two layers of tear-away backing.
     
     
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    Step 4: Taking great care to fold the bottom layer of the blanket back, embroider the design.
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    Step 5: Remove the tear-away backing from the underside of the embroidery.
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    Step 6: Hand stitch the front and back of the quilt back together again, hiding the stitches in the fold.
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