I made this quilt six months ago for my husband’s birthday and keep forgetting to blog about it! It’s a lap-sized quilt rather than a full one so he can easily bring it from room to room and use it all over the house, particularly (right now, anyway) in the study, which is the site of most of his PhD work. His thesis is on an American modernist poet, Hart Crane, whose most famous work is an epic poem about the Brooklyn Bridge.
Brooklyn Bridge quilt
I made the centre panel in one of the V&A’s Digital Textile Design courses (the perks of being one of the supervisors is you get to do one too if there’s time!), with a photo of the Brooklyn Bridge that I found on Flickr (with Creative Commons licence, of course). The photo was printed on silk.
Centre panel printed on silk
The gray pieces of fabric on the front are scraps from a colleague who sews all her own clothes (only in gray), and the back is made entirely out of old trousers. I did the orange quilting by hand in perle cotton. I wasn’t sure it would look good with the grays, but it did, and now orange and gray is one of my favourite colour combinations.
Who'd have known old trousers could be so useful?
Detail of quilt stitching
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Very nice! And I love that it’s all recycled, too. 🙂
What a lovely quilt, loving the use of trousers and agree the orange quilting turned out well. Orange and grey is a great combination, very on-trend too!
This is such a beautiful quilt! Gorgeous. Great blog too, will enjoy following!
Well done Nadia! It looks really really great- and it is grand to see all my spare fabric put to good use. Also really strange (in a good way) to see fabric I have bought in different countries and made into various clothes (and therefore have a strong memories and intimate relationship with), in another context… Next time I have a clearout, I know where to send it!
Oh, that is fantastic – I was wondering which clothes you had made with which fabrics. You’ll have to show me some pictures and tell me about them!