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hello boys & girls -

i was working yesterday and one of my favorite fellow volunteers was telling me that she wanted to have he daughters wedding dress made into a wall hanging for her. she wants to use a small part of her dress and a small part of the dresses of her step daughters to make a wall hanging.

she has contacted a local shop regarding the job.

i would like to give her any other options that may be available.

anyone know of someone who does this specialty?

she asked me but i would be scared to death to cut up someone's wedding gown!!

thanks in advance for any recommendations!!

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You might direct your friend to Cindy Needham's blog to view some of her student's efforts using wedding dresses.

Cindy is the author of "Wholecloth Linen Quilts" and teaches LinenLady classes. She uses vintage linens to build wholecloth-type quilts. Her blog does not have a search feature so you will need to wade through lots of posts to find something, but the journey is wonderful. There is inspiration everywhere.

www.cindyneedham.com

Click on "blog".

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When I made one of my daughter's wedding dresses I kept pieces of the fabric and some from the bridesmaid's dresses to one day make something for her. Figure it would make a nice anneversary present one day they just had their 10th. No ideas though about cutting one up.

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Showed my son & his wife a photo of a Christmas tree skirt that my sister Sharon (also on the forum) had made from her daughters friends wedding dress for the friend. Not thinking of what they may think of it..... Well as I turned they both had eyes that were telling me their thoughts............ I said NO! I can't cut up her wedding dress. (Mind you that we had just taken a lot of their items to their new home). Well their next trip to our home brought along her dress that we had taken up on our previous trip. Our son convinced me that it was the right thing to do. As Christmas in our home has always been very special, & I love to decorate..... (last year had nine trees & every tree is decorated differently)! He said, "What is better just having the dress in a box, shoved into a closet, or having it out for the most meaningful time of the year"? Tradition has worked its way into their home.... So after many hours of removing all of the lace, taking the skirt apart to each piece then serging the seams, ( making that first cut was hard, but after that there was no going back it was "almost" exciting) then having it then dry cleaned. I stablized it with a light weight fusable. Usually satin has a nap, well this dress did not. Using some other leftover satin from previous wedding dresses that I had sewn for others, I went to work. Making 16 panels with stripes sewn at a angle, reversing every other panel, so in the end it made a stars aroung the tree. I ended up sewing each strip to a cotton prewashed foundation fabric, as it still wanted to shift even with a lightweight fusable on it. All that is left of her dress is 1/3 of the front of her dress, of which I will make them Christmas stocking. By using the second satin with nap the star patten shows up wonderfully. I do have to quilt it yet, and plan on just stitching in the ditch to totally make the stars aroung the tree pop. Fiinishing it with hand sewing the lace from the bottom of her dress back on around the bottom edge of the tree skirt. This is the same son whom I wrote about on June 27 who decided to stay here with his family & not return overseas for work, & yes he did received the job he interviewed for on that day!!!!! Life is wonderful.....now to go & finish quilting grandson #2's sports quilt.

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  • 3 months later...

Finished Christmas tree skirt. It is approx 82" in diameter. I have easily 150 hours into this project. 50 hours to disassemble the dress and remove the lace. 50 hours to sew together the panels for the tree skirt and quilt it. Another 50 hours to hand sew the lace back on. I was able to quilt this on my Freedom just doing stich in ditch for the stars. White polar fleece was used for the backing and a 6 oz poly batting.

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Wow that is extra special for a tree skirt.

I have quilted a Wedding Ring quilt that they used the wedding dress leftovers (from making it) and used wedding dress for background and brides maids dress leftovers for rings in quilt I think I have a picture of it here. Several years ago. If I can find it or I will post again.

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