My sister, Emerald, made this quilt for a friend of a friend’s husband. Growing up, he had a bed cover with antique cars and an Empire Strikes Back sleeping bag that he loved to snuggle under, and though they were worn to nearly thread bear rags, he didn’t want them gotten rid of. It took untold hours to plan and over 80 hours to put together.
Realize that the polyester fabric of the Star Wars sleeping bag was super thin and slippery to work with, so cutting it into the squares on point was a tricky. She had to fix it to the living room floor, mark the ends of each line and then use several large rulers and a chalk line (the kind used in woodworking), to snap the cutting lines on the fabric.
Each square (which didn’t want to keep its shape) was then adhered to white cotton fabric. And that was just the beginning and only one side. The other side she fussy-cut around the cars, added coordinating colors and made it patchwork-y, preserving as much of the original bed cover as she could.
I had the easy part of quilting it with white Glide thread using the Contempo pantograph pattern by Urban Elementz and then binding it.
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