A Dress-Maker's Quilt

Today I am am excited to announce the return of a fabulous guest blogger!

Welcome Back Allie from What Allie's Making Now

(You can read her first guest post HERE)

She has another amazing project to share with all of us and it totally took my breath away! It is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! So please share some blog love with her!

Take it away, Allie!

I am a dress maker.

I am absolutely NOT at quilter.

I am in NO way saying quilters are boring or quilting is boring. I know there are millions of quilters out there that take great joy and pride in their amazing quilts. They put a lot of attention and detail into their quilts.

I, however, simply do not like to quilt. I can remember going to help someone tie a quilt and thinking, really? This is not the sewing I am interested with.

Over the years, I have made a few simple-ish quilts. But I never got the bug to do the intricate quilting you would see at a quilt show.

There is this lady I know named Diana. Her quilts are crazy amazing! And she has a sewing room that most of us would trade our children for -it has a door with a LOCK! It's quiet and organized and there are no sippy cups or random doll parts mixed among the sewing notions. No wonder her quilts are amazing... Anyway. While we were in Logan visiting , Hollie's daughter's room, for the perfect storm of reasons, had to get remodeled. The pallet ended up being Brown and Lime Green and White.

We searched for a covering for the bed, but everything right now is either and Avocado green or not enough green and too much other colors or just poor quality. So, we went to the fabric store and picked out a bunch of coordinating fabrics. With those, I toiled (ha ha) and toiled (more laughter, please) and came up with this:

Being a dress maker, I included lots of details that one might find in clothing: Ruffles, Rouching, Pin tucks, Lace...

And a few quilt techniques like cut-away and eyelet.

Here are a few close-up photos:

So, the quilt is very pretty and will make a very nice dress for Sammy's bed.

Now I will start on the Pillow Shams and throw pillows and Coordinating curtains.

FUN, Fun, fun!

Check back soon to see the finished room with all the trimmings!