Forage Quilt made from an Old Apron

I get a lot of pleasure making something from an item that is past its use by date. In this case a worn and tattered old apron has a new life in the form of a small quilt.After carefully laundering and unpicking there was enough to 'build' a pieced quilt of simple squares. Some of the squares are pieced and patched. The apron strings form a border top and bottom.

Forage Quilts

Have been busy with the needle and threads making some small quilts for new borns. They are made from old fabrics from my collection that I have made over the years.

One is made from shirting fabrics that were offcuts from a wonderful local shirtmaker that ran a business called Illywacker shirts.


The little quilt is now on the wall at my friends relocated business, Tobias and the Cat, newly opened at Queenscliff, at Port Phillip Heads.

 We think that we were separated at birth! We like many of the same things and sometimes when showing each other what we have purchased find it is something similar or the same thing!