This quilt started off as a dress, yes it supposed to be a lovely birthday dress back in December 2010. The cutting, piecing and construction of a lot of triangles took forever - novice piecer.
It should have and did end up looking a little like this Empire Evening Dress from Anna Maria Horner (with straps)...
... then I put it on the day before my birthday... and it did absolutely nothing for me, nothing what so ever. Like unwearable. Distressed I just put it back into the cupboard for over a year.
Then one day is dawned on me that it could have another life as a quilt. So I deconstructed the dress to create this zigzag quilt. I also had enough scraps left over from the dress to make the back. The voile fabric is beautifully soft but was hell to quilt as it slid all over the place. This was also my first attempt at quilting on my home machine.
Far from perfect but at least we're enjoying it on the couch rather than this gorgeous fabric being consigned to the back of the cupboard forever.
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