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more Christmas presents

by Chloe on January 4th, 2008

Now that Christmas is over I finally get to share everything I was working away on in December!  I’ve been wanting to make a memory quilt for my brother & his new wife since they got married in May.  I decided that it would make a great Christmas present for them :-)

I collected some of their favorite wedding photos and printed them onto Jacquard’s silk inkjet printing sheets.  I prefer the look of printing directly onto fabric, as opposed to using a photo transfer.  You must use specially treated fabric or the ink will just wash right out.

I used silk & cotton to piece around the photos & then machine-embroidered to embellish them.  My DH came up with the idea of using copper tags with their names & the date engraved into it.  He also made several hearts from copper as well.

The photos were sewn onto the backing (which I had already quilted) and then hand-stitched to bind the edges.

Here’s how it turned out:

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