Last week, I mentioned that I was going to put together a little wall quilt for my Pink room. I did that over the weekend and finished it up yesterday morning.
It started out with this, an unstitched, vintage stamped tablerunner that I found at a flea market awhile back:
It had some damage on one end but the other end was in good shape. I stitched it last Fall, not really knowing what I wanted to do with it. I finally decided to sew it into a little wall quilt.
I pulled out a few of my 1930's reproduction prints:
After adding a piece of lightweight fusible interfacing to the back of the stitched piece, I trimmed it. Then I cut strips of the 30's prints in various widths and sewed them down to a foundation. When I had that done, I cut the strips and sewed them on each side of the quilt.
Then I added 2 borders. When the front of the quilt was done, I ironed a piece of fusible fleece to the back of the quilt knowing that I had no intention of hand or machine quilting it!
Before sewing the back on, I added a sleeve into the seam at the top, attached to the backing fabric so I could hang it. I wanted to do it all on the machine rather than by hand. Then I sewed the back to the quilt like a pillowcase, leaving an opening at the bottom for turning right side out. I blind stitched the opening at the bottom closed and pressed the entire quilt.
Last, I made a few fabric yo-yo's to sew onto the corners of the stitched piece using some vintage buttons in the center of the yo-yo's. They are sewn through to the back into smaller buttons. The purpose of this was to hold the front of the quilt and the back of the quilt together. Like I said, I didn't want to "quilt" it.
Here is the finished quilt:
And here it is displayed in my little pink room:
The quilt rod is up a little high. I had one of my crazy quilts hanging in here but I got tired of looking at it. It was larger than this so the rod for that one was at the right height. I didn't want to move the rod and leave holes in my walls so I balanced this out by putting this pretty porcelain doll on the dresser.
On the other side of the dresser I have a vintage mirrored dresser tray with a small lamp. The mirror reflects the light. It's really pretty in person.
This quilt looks very "1930's"! It looks a little babyish but I don't care, I like that look and the pretty pastel colors!
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