My mother is really into quilting and is quite talented at it! Since I have grown up around quilting, my fascination with it has always been present. I thought to myself, surely this is something I can do! So about a year and a half ago, Matt and I started working on a "real" quilt that has three layers and will be a great addition to our house. Well, it started in Boston and followed us to Florida, and now, is on its way to completion! It is a denim quilt made from old blue jeans and is backed with a king size flannel sheet. It is a queen size quilt and will eventually be for our guestroom like I mentioned earlier. Although, since it is denim, it is too thick to machine quilt with my machine, and as I don't have an extra $3000 laying around to buy a quilting machine, I need to do things the old way-by hand! This required a quilt stand/frame for me to work with. My engineer husband said that he could make me one, and here she is, a quilt stand made of PVC pipe! It works so well and I am so thankful for it! I hope to have the quilt completed by November of this year, and have our guestroom in tip top shape by then too!
The entire quilt stand. It is big, but it needs to be to hold a queen/king quilt!
This is the mechanism that allows me to turn or roll the quilt to move to the next section.
This is a view from the other side.
This shows the pattern of the quilt. They are concentric squares alternating with light and dark denim fabrics. Pretty neat, huh?
The entire quilt stand. It is big, but it needs to be to hold a queen/king quilt!
This is the mechanism that allows me to turn or roll the quilt to move to the next section.
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